Biotech firms are engineering smarter, safer gene delivery systems to enhance the safety and efficacy of genetic medicines.

Certain DNA sequences can form structures other than the canonical double helix. These alternative DNA conformations—referred ...

Ingrida Domarkienė, a geneticist at Vilnius University in Lithuania, discusses the exciting developments made possible by ...

For uncomplicated urogenital gonorrhea, gepotidacin, which inhibits bacterial DNA replication, is noninferior to ceftriaxone plus azithromycin, according to a study published online April 14 in The ...

An INRS research team has identified a new family of enzymes that can make precise cuts in single-stranded DNA. A few years ago, the introduction of CRISPR technology marked a significant breakthrough ...

For the first time, Professor Veyrier and his team at INRS have discovered a family of enzymes that can cut specific sequences in single-stranded DNA. These enzymes, called site-specific ...

Recently, Professor Frédéric Veyrier at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) and his team developed a new genetic tool based on a family of specific enzymes called Ssn that allows ...

Researchers from the University of Birmingham have uncovered answers that provide the detail to explain two specific DNA repair processes that have long been in question.

Proteins are fundamental biomolecules that perform a broad range of vital functions within the human body. They serve as an essential structural and functional component of cells, tissues and organs ...

Researchers at the University of Birmingham have made significant strides in understanding two key DNA repair pathways—offering much-needed clarity to an area of molecular biology that has long ...

Researchers have uncovered answers that provide the detail to explain two specific DNA repair processes that have long been in question.

Researchers from the University of Birmingham have uncovered answers that provide the detail to explain two specific DNA ...