New imaging tools reveal how within an hour of infection, the virus begins to alter our chromosomes to kick-start its own replication.

The cold sore-causing Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV-1) hijacks human cells and reconfigures its DNA within just an hour after ...

It follows a previous report showing that the Werner syndrome protein WRN and its interacting protein WRNIP1 are indispensable for translesion DNA synthesis (TLS) by Y-family DNA polymerases (Pols).

Viruses are entirely dependent on their hosts to reproduce. They ransack living cells for parts and energy and hijack the ...

Experiments with tools designed to detect DNA damage reveal unique and conserved features of telomeres in cancer cells.

Skoltech researchers have enlisted generative artificial intelligence to complete the missing data on the distances between pairs of genes in DNA. This enables figuring out the 3D architecture of ...

These physical spacers are known as L2 loops, and each insertion exposes the bases of three DNA nucleotides that are then available for the invading strand to pair to, probing for homology.

By creating a more true-to-life representation of DNA's environment, researchers at Northwestern University have discovered that strand separation - the essential process a "resting" double helix ...

The sequences are not random. A lot of structure in natural language is also informal; it can be ambiguous, and it’s changing all the time. In the same way, DNA sequences have some ambiguity. The same ...

They embedded DNA molecules, encoding multiple images, into a branched gel-like structure resembling a brain cell. Dubbed “dendricolloids,” the structures stored DNA files far better than those freeze ...

DNA encodes all genetic information, and is the blueprint from which all biological life is created. And that’s only in the short-term. In the long-term, DNA is a storage device, a biological flash ...