small DNA sequences that travel through the genomes, can silence the genes adjacent to them by inducing a molecule called antisense RNA. This is a new mechanism for evolution that has been unknown ...

"It's the same for DNA, and the transposon transfer mechanism takes advantage of this." The transposase protein unwinds and separates the transposon's DNA strands first, which makes it easier to ...

The dcr-1 gene seems to play a crucial role in the mechanism. During the study, Sylvia Fischer also discovered how new transposons can arise. If a transposon jumps out of the DNA a hole remains in ...

A group of researchers, lead by Vasily M. Studitsky, professor at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, discovered a new mechanism of DNA repair, which opens up new perspectives for the treatment ...

A research team from the University of California (UC), Irvine, has revealed a previously unknown mechanism that triggers an inflammatory immune response in cells when their DNA is damaged.

Spirodela polyrhiza, the most ancient member of the duckweed family, uses an understudied epigenetic mechanism to ... by ...

A team at Harvard Medical School has identified a novel mechanism of DNA repair that occurs exclusively in neurons, which are some of the longest-lived cells in the body. The research, conducted ...

The hypothesis was that during sleep, a process occurs inside individual neurons whereby DNA damage accumulated in waking hours can be repaired. Utilizing a high-resolution microscope that allowed ...

The stability of DNA is extremely important for the proper ... However, if unrepaired lesions accumulate or the repair mechanism is faulty, it can lead to cell death, mutagenesis and even cancer.