The DNA in our cells is constantly damaged, with the most severe being the simultaneous breakage of both strands that compose ...

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Researchers have discovered a secret super power that cancer cells exhibit while squeezing themselves through our bodies. The ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have uncovered the ...

The story of this potentially paradigmatic development begins where so much of human health begins: the mitochondria.

Cancer cells mount an instant, energy‑rich response to being physically squeezed, according to a study published in the ...

The binding of proteins to DNA is crucial for producing other proteins, ensuring that all the necessary processes in cells ...

Cancer cells mount an instant, energy‑rich response to being physically squeezed, according to a study published in the journal Nature Communications.

Each cell in our bodies carries about two meters of DNA in its nucleus, packed into a tiny volume of just a few hundred cubic ...

While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows. This means ...