The human body contains about 100 trillion cells ... We've now zoomed in enough to see portions of the DNA strand. The DNA is wrapped around histones -- protein structures that are sometimes ...

"We think this research solves the mystery of how DNA double-strand breaks and the nuclear envelope connect for repair in ...

Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves. For ...

Inside a cell is a long strand of the chemical DNA (deoxyribonucleic ... and in studies pertaining to human dispersion.While most aspects of DNA are identical in samples from all human beings ...

To accomplish this, each strand of existing DNA acts as a template ... In comparison, eukaryotic human DNA replicates at a rate of 50 nucleotides per second. In both cases, replication occurs ...

A new study in the journal Human Gene Therapy indicates that DNA impurities derived from plasmid and host cell DNA are ...

Cells in the human body have very different life spans ... At the same time, the protein is essential for DNA repair: If a strand of DNA is broken, for example, it ensures that the damaged ...

The genetic connections between DNA repair pathways and human cancer predisposition have fueled interest ... on a common final step in which the continuity of the repaired DNA strand is restored by ...

In addition to Lander and Zerio, authors of the study, “Human polymerase θ helicase positions DNA microhomologies for double-strand break repair,” include Yonghong Bai, Brian A. Sosa-Alvarado ...