How brain cells repair their DNA reveals “hot spots” of aging and disease
The brain is the organ responsible for our personality, consciousness and ability to process our surrounding environment. It, quite simply,...
Tag: DNA
Caffeine reveals role of epigenetics in anti-fungal resistance
Image credit: Kruthika Sundaram Annually, an estimated 1 billion people suffer from critical fungal infections, with 1.6 million deaths. The...
Secrets of the water bear
Hypsibius dujardini, a type of tardigrade, imaged with scanning electron microscopy. Image credit: Willow Gabriel, Goldstein Lab via Wikimedia, CC...
Blood iron emerges as a potential key to anti-ageing
Image credit: Jill Wellington, Pixabay Growing old may be an inevitable part of our lives, but can we overcome the...
The ABCs of Life on Earth
Image credit: Pixabay Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Edinburgh,...
Once Upon a DNA
Omar Shabana explores the ins and outs of the information in our DNA, and how we use it. Image credit:...
The Perils and Possibilities of CRISPR Whispering
Image credit: Elsie Greenwood In November 2018 a controversial public announcement was published on YouTube by He Jiankui, a biophysics...
Bacteria may be travelling through the air to share DNA
A research group has discovered that bacteria in remote, isolated regions share some stretches of DNA and are suggesting that...
