The human genome consists of 3 billion base pairs, and when a cell divides, it takes about seven hours to complete making a ...

The cancer drugs called PARP inhibitors have a puzzling reputation: even though they are treatment mainstays for multiple ...

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 ...

Scientists at the Center for Cell Dynamics, School of Biological and Behavioral Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, in ...

Doctors at the National Institutes of Health have discovered a new cause of skin cancer, according to a report in the New ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have uncovered the mechanism by which cells identify and repair a highly toxic form of DNA ...

Scientists at the Centre for Cell Dynamics, School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, ...

The DNA in our cells is constantly damaged, with the most severe being the simultaneous breakage of both strands that compose it. In a study published in Nature Communications, scientists reveal in ...