This is the sixth of eight posts on evolutionary research to celebrate Darwin's bicentennial. Physically, we are incredibly different from our ape cousins but genetically, it's a different story. We ...

New research shows genome duplication in the ancestor of modern gymnosperms, a group of seed plants that includes cypresses and pines, might have directly contributed to the origin of the group over ...

相同組換えは、DNA分子間の遺伝情報の交換を可能にするDNA修復機構だ。RecAというタンパク質がその過程を取り仕切る様子が、構造解析で明らかにされた。 我々生物の染色体は、常に、ゲノムの完全性が損なわれかねないようなDNA損傷を与える、紫外線や ...

Researchers at USC have developed a yeast model to study a gene mutation that disrupts the duplication of DNA, causing massive damage to a cell's chromosomes, while somehow allowing the cell to ...

Human disease including cancer arises from disfunction of essential processes within a cell. One essential cellular process is the copying of the genomic DNA—the road map of cells—followed by ...