News tagged with dna replication

In a rare disorder, a familiar protein disrupts gene function

As reported this week in the open-access journal PLoS Biology, an international team of scientists studying a rare genetic disease has discovered that a bundle of proteins already known to be important for keeping chromo ...

Biology / Biotechnology

May 27, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Scientists synthesize gold to shed light on cells' inner workings

Highly fluorescent gold nanoclusters for sub-cellular imaging have been synthesized by researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), one of the research institutes of Singapore's A*STAR (Agency ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Apr 16, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 2

Biologists discover link between CGG repeats in DNA and neurological disorders

Researchers have long known that some repetitive DNA sequences can make human chromosomes "fragile," i.e. appearing constricted or even broken during cell divisions. Scientists at Tufts University have found that one such ...

Biology /

Jan 11, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

Researchers illuminate mechanisms that regulate DNA damage control and replication

Scientists at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have demonstrated important new roles for the protein kinase complex Cdc7/Dbf4 or Cdc7/Drf1 (Ddk) in monitoring damage control during DNA replication and reinitiating ...