The ATR–ATRIP kinase complex safeguards genome integrity by coordinating cellular responses to DNA damage and replication stress. Two recent cryo-EM studies resolve the structural basis of ATR–ATRIP ...

At the scale of individual cells, the human body is constantly in motion. Every second, millions of cells divide, particularly in tissues such as the bone marrow, intestine and skin; neurons and heart ...

The Okazaki Fragments That Solved the Mystery of DNA Replication1. The Mystery That Could Not Be Solved by the Discovery of ...

Every embryo begins with a race against time. Primordial germ cells, the rapidly dividing precursors that ultimately give rise to eggs and sperm, must copy and safeguard their entire genome over and ...

Life on Earth writes its blueprints using only four types of letters.A, T, G, and C. If the sequence changes, the organism ...

They propose a two-year alternative to traditional college, built around real-world projects, hands-on experience, mentoring by practitioners and the use of AI to turn readily available knowledge into ...

Every time a cell divides, it must copy roughly three billion letters of DNA with near-perfect fidelity. That copying process, DNA replication, is among the most demanding operations a cell performs, ...

Ten established diet-quality scores, among them the Mediterranean, DASH, MIND and Nordic patterns, were each associated with slower biological aging in about 7,500 German adults. The German Center for ...

Anthropic's Claude AI discovers a novel enzyme system in bacterial DNA, marking a breakthrough in AI-assisted genomic ...

Scientists want to create cells from scratch, to unveil life’s origins or provide specialized functions. Are they close?

Connect underlying mechanisms to the bigger picture to teach biology that sticks with your learners Chemistry teachers who ...

Maynooth University has demonstrated a DNA computer designed so that the structure encoding the correct answer is the most ...