A Northwestern Medicine study has revealed a previously unknown connection between two fundamental cellular processes, ...

Researchers at The Institute of Cancer Research, London identified the CIP2A–TOPBP1 complex as a master regulator of DNA repair during mitosis, coordinating backup pathways that protect chromosomes ...

Researchers have discovered how cells activate a last-resort DNA repair system when severe damage strikes. When genetic ...

DNA doesn’t just sit still inside our cells — it folds, loops, and rearranges in ways that shape how genes behave. Researchers have now mapped this hidden architecture in unprecedented detail, showing ...

Danish researchers believe that everyone should monitor their blood folate levels. They argue that a deficiency in folic acid ...

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.

DNA methylation is a process in which a methyl group is attached to the cytosine base of the DNA molecule, and a major way that DNA is epigenetically marked. Epigenetic modifications can act as on-off ...

Learn how a newly discovered virus disrupts its host’s nucleus in ways that echo how complex cells may have formed billions ...

For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...