This new review article highlights the pivotal and paradoxical role of R-loops in maintaining genomic stability while simultaneously posing risks to it. These three-stranded nucleic acid structures, ...
A research team at The University of Osaka revealed that the loss of heterochromatin can cause a chain reaction leading to ...
This study is achieved by Professor Wei Xu’s research team from Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. The research team established mDRIP-seq, a ...
A new LUMC study has changed our understanding of how cells work. Researchers have discovered that the CFAP20 protein acts as ...
“There are currently limited therapeutic options for elderly patients with myeloid malignancies, who are ineligible for stem cell transplantation,” commented Dr. Sayantani Sinha, a postdoctoral ...
Osaka, Japan – Changes in genes have been linked to the development of different diseases for a while. However, it's not ...
A study of newly created databases of medulloblastoma has found that patients with tumors containing circular extrachromosomal DNA -- loops of DNA found outside of regular chromosomes -- are twice as ...
One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published in Nature. Chromosomes are thread-like structures that carry a cell's ...
Not all DNA looks like the familiar double helix. Sometimes, parts of our genetic code fold into unusual shapes under certain conditions. One such structure known as a G-quadruplex (G4) looks like a ...