Inside cells, DNA twists and coils itself into a variety of different secondary structures—including i-motifs (iMs) and ...

Ebihara Takashi has been the chief operating officer of GeneFrontier (GFC) since 2010, with a focus on advancing cell-free protein expression technologies, particularly the PURE system. He earned a ...

You can always be judged by your scars. This is the idea that sums up what researchers at Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) claim is one of the new breakthroughs in basic and biomedical ...

Francesca Storici consults at Tessera Therapeutics. She has received funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Your DNA is continually damaged by sources both ...

Scientists at INRS have identified a family of enzymes, known as Ssn, that can make targeted cuts in single-stranded DNA—a feat never before achieved. This discovery not only fills a major gap in ...

To our immune system, a potentially lifesaving gene therapy can look a lot like a dangerous infection. That's because most genetic medicine uses viruses or double-stranded DNA to deliver genetic ...

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