Researchers at Cardiff University have uncovered how a particularly severe form of DNA damage arises—shedding new light on ...
A new computational tool infers changes occurring at the ends of the chromosomes housing our DNA. It does so by detecting ...
A new AI tool analyzes biopsy images to estimate telomere length, a key marker of aging. It detects structural patterns in ...
On the flipside, if telomeres are too long, it can also spell trouble because cancer cells require long telomeres to become ...
Transposons are critical drivers of bacterial evolution that have been studied for many decades and have been the subject of Nobel Prize winning research. Now, researchers from Cornell University have ...
A new computational tool infers changes occurring at the ends of the chromosomes housing our DNA. It does so by detecting ...
When a cell divides, a small section of the telomere of each chromosome is worn away. While most cells use the enzyme telomerase to mitigate this loss, about 10–15% of cancers use a different ...
Transposons, or "jumping genes" – DNA segments that can move from one part of the genome to another – are key to bacterial evolution and the development of antibiotic resistance. Cornell University ...
A Harvard study found that vitamin D supplements may help slow biological aging by protecting telomeres, the protective caps on DNA. Over four years, participants who took vitamin D lost fewer DNA ...