On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They represented fragments of a DNA molecule, and young James Watson was trying to ...

Nucleotide synthesis-the production of the basic components of DNA and RNA-is essential for cell growth and division.

Researchers introduced a yeast enzyme, ScURA, into human cells, enabling nucleotide synthesis independent of mitochondrial ...

Just like the mechanical components in cars or computers, the molecules inside a cell can sometimes malfunction. When this happens during DNA replication, the result is an unpredictable change in the ...

Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) in head and neck cancer patients submitted to concurrent chemoradiation. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2013 ASCO Annual ...

Phospho-ERK (pERK) and Ki67 expression as compared to thickness and mitotic rate (MR) as prognostic factors in patients with stage I/II melanomas ...

There’s been this dream for decades. What if we could just print out an entire gene directly, one base at a time? —Daniel Lin-Arlow, Ansa Biotechnologies As scientists set their sights on cell and ...

Less than 2% of the genome codes for proteins; the rest, once called 'junk DNA', contains regulatory elements. Researchers analyzed 10,000 to reveal how variants shape gene activity.