Researchers at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI) at Kanazawa University have directly visualized how enzymes find ...

High-speed atomic force microscopy reveals how enzymes find and break apart vulnerable regions of DNA while tightly packed structures resist degradation KANAZAWA, Japan, Sept. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- ...

DNA is the blueprint of the human body. However, tens of thousands of DNA lesions occur in our bodies every day. In particular, if "apurinic/apyrimidinic sites" (AP sites, damaged sites where one ...

Experts at the company don't know what the newfound system does, so its potential utility in biology—if any—remains unclear.

Today (September 19), the Lasker Foundation announced this year’s winners of the Lasker Awards. Zhijian “James” Chen, a biochemist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, was awarded ...

Researchers at the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) reveal that metabolic enzymes known for their roles in energy production and nucleotide synthesis are taking on unexpected "second jobs" within ...

Anthropic's Claude discovered a novel enzyme system with properties reminiscent of CRISPR. Here is what it found and what remains unknown.

AI-designed proteins improved targeted DNA insertion in cultured cells, with one variant doubling the performance of an ...

When a wound does not heal properly, it leaves a scar. Similarly, mutations—which are permanent changes to genetic code—are often the result of damaged DNA that has not been properly repaired.

A research group led by the University of Osaka has discovered that the DNA repair enzyme Polβ plays a crucial role in protecting the developing brain from harmful mutations. The study found that a ...

Life on Earth writes its blueprints using only four types of letters.A, T, G, and C. If the sequence changes, the organism ...

Researchers at the Nano Life Science Institute at Kanazawa University in Japan say they have directly visualized how enzymes ...