In everyday life, our genetic material is constantly under attack from many factors. Environmental influences such as light, ...

Platelets are probably best known for their role in blood clotting, making scabs and related, if less salubrious, contributions to heart attacks and strokes. But these tiny, saucer-shaped blood cells ...

The protocol developed by the Franco-Japanese team is as elegant as it is robust. Scientists prepare sets of DNA fragments of entirely synthetic origin, from which they generate identical replicas ...

A study published today in the journal Science reveals how jumping fragments of human DNA, a type of genetic parasite, destabilise the cancer genome. Unstable genomes are a fertile playground for ...

Professor Indraneel Mittra and his team show that DNA fragments from dying cells function as agents of horizontal gene transfer in mammalian cells. For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can ...

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