Homologous recombination plays essential roles in the repair of DNA double strand ... Chen Z, Yang H, Pavletich NP. 2008. Mechanism of homologous recombination from the RecA-ssDNA/dsDNA structures.

Cartoon comparing DNA strand displacement using the DNA-tweezers (top) versus the DNA probe built into the previous chip (bottom). Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

A new study published in PNAS by researchers at the Smithsonian, Academia Sinica and The George Washington University analyzed more than 47 million animal DNA sequences from GenBank, the most ...

Sequestration of an extrahelical nucleotide by DNA-bound ligase is reminiscent of the “base-flipping” mechanism of target site recognition and catalysis used by other DNA modification and repair ...

Any recent text book of neurology will list at least 200 neurological disorders, with diverse etiologies and genetic characteristics. A number of these disorders have a definitive link to an ...

More information: DNA double-strand break–capturing nuclear envelope tubules drive DNA repair, Nature Structural & Molecular ...

“This DNA repair and replication activity supports a fascinating mechanism called premeiotic endoreplication, a process through which the snake duplicates its chromosomes before dividing them, ...