Cells zealously protect the integrity of their genomes, because damage can lead to cancer or cell death. The genome—a cell's complete set of DNA—is most vulnerable while it is being duplicated before a cell divides. Cancer ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 24, 2023
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A protein that prepares DNA for replication also prevents the replication process from running out of control, according to a new study by Weill Cornell Medicine researchers. The work, published Jan. 5 in Molecular Cell, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 24, 2023
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Nobody wants to be average.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 9, 2023
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A research team led by Dr. Yuanliang Zhai from the School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), and his collaborators from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and Institut Curie, ...
Biotechnology
Jan 6, 2023
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A grasshopper hatched in a crowded environment may look and behave differently than a grasshopper hatched in isolation—even if they have the same genes. The mechanism of this density-dependent phenomenon, called polyphenism, ...
Ecology
Dec 12, 2022
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Enzymes, which are crucial to controlling how cells replicate in the human body, could be the very ingredient that encourages DNA to spontaneously mutate—causing potentially permanent genetic errors, according to new research ...
Biochemistry
Nov 16, 2022
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A team of scientists at Whitehead Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have systematically evaluated the functions of more than 5,000 essential human genes using a novel, pooled, imaged-based screening method. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 8, 2022
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With a new model, AMOLF researchers reveal how single-celled organisms like bacteria coordinate growth, cell division and DNA replication. Bacteria reproduce via growth and cell division. During each cycle of growth and division, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 7, 2022
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Blue-green algae (AKA cyanobacteria) have a superpower which likely helps them be highly successful as invaders of waterways. They have an extraordinary ability to store energy and nitrogen in their cells for times of need. ...
Biochemistry
Sep 30, 2022
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Cell division is fundamental for life, allowing organisms to grow, repair tissues, and reproduce. For a cell to divide, all the DNA inside the cell (the genome) must first be copied, in a process called DNA replication. But ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 29, 2022
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