A diagram of the DRT3 system, showing Drt3a in yellow and Drt3b in blue. (Hyunbin Lee) Scientists have just discovered an ...

Shixin Liu is pioneering new ways of studying the tiny proteins that copy and read DNA in living cells. (Credit: Roshni ...

Discovery reshapes understanding of how tumor cells repair broken DNA, pointing toward more precise cancer therapies.

Some 254 million people live with a chronic hepatitis B (HBV) infection that is often asymptomatic for decades, only to ...

Recognising impressive contribution and transformative impact across the molecular biosciences, the Biochemical Society has ...

More than 250 million people worldwide live with chronic hepatitis B (HBV), yet there is still no accessible animal model for studying the disease or testing novel therapies. Researchers have now ...

Frailty can creep up quietly. One year a person is carrying groceries without thinking about it; a few years later, a stumble ...

Two Lancaster University researchers have been awarded £125,000 each by the Academy of Medical Sciences.Dr Panagiotis Kotsantis and Dr Stefanie ...

NDMA—a carcinogen that has been found in medications and in drinking water contaminated by chemical plants—may have a much ...

Mammalian cells initiate antiviral signaling when cyclic GMP-AMP synthase (cGAS) detects cytoplasmic DNA and synthesizes 2',3'-cyclic GMP-AMP (2',3'-cGAMP), which activates stimulator of interferon ...

On 25 April 1953, Watson and Crick published an article, in the acclaimed journal “Nature” titled “Molecular structure of nucleic acids: A structure for deoxyribonucleic acid”. The one-page article ...