DNA and RNA use the same five-carbon sugar, ribose, in their structure. The deoxy- means that on one side of the base pair, there's a place where another base pair can attach itself by way of a ...

Researchers identified a new mechanism in the DNA damage response involving the long non-coding RNA NEAT1. Increased NEAT1 ...

NEAT1 itself does not repair DNA damage. However, as the Wurzburg team discovered, it enables the controlled release and activation of an RNA-binding DNA repair factor. In this way, the cell can ...

With the preformed DNA added, the researchers noticed something approaching natural selection, which could explain how simple ...

Demis Hassabis cofounded DeepMind, the renowned AI lab acquired by Google in 2014. He is also a former chess prodigy and won ...

Epigenetics, the study of changes in gene function that do not involve alterations to the DNA sequence, plays a pivotal role ...

Genome instability can cause numerous diseases. Cells have effective DNA repair mechanisms at their disposal. A research team ...

A time-delay circuit enables precise control over the division of synthetic DNA droplets, which mimic biological Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation (LLPS) droplets found in cells. By utilizing a ...

Genome instability can cause numerous diseases. Cells have effective DNA repair mechanisms at their disposal. A research team has now gained new insights into the DNA damage response.

“Our hypothesis was that RNA metabolism involves NEAT1 in the DNA damage response in order ... which leads to changes in the NEAT1 secondary structure. As a result, highly methylated NEAT1 ...