Cells have evolved careful checks to ensure DNA is copied only once, but how they switch on replication at the right moment ...
A new discovery by researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics (BDR) in Japan upends decades of assumptions regarding DNA replication. Led by Ichiro Hiratani and colleagues, the ...
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A protein thought to play a supporting role in DNA replication actually facilitates the whole process
Every time a cell divides, it must copy its entire genome so that each daughter cell inherits a complete set of DNA. During that process, enzymes known as polymerases race along the DNA to copy its ...
The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Fig. 2: The assembly of a pre-RC with one ORC loading the Mcm2-7 double hexamer. The alternative text for this image may have been ...
Researchers shed new light on G-quadruplexes, a type of secondary DNA structure that has attracted attention as a potential therapeutic target in cancer. Every day, billions of cells in your body ...
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