Researchers at Tel Aviv University, led by Prof. Illana Gozes, examined the effects of different mutations in the ADNP protein, which is essential for normal brain development and aging, on the brain ...

Torsional stress in chromatin plays a fundamental role in cellular functions, influencing key processes such as transcription, replication, and chromatin organization. Transcription and other ...

Aging is a privilege, but it also brings risks -- including an increased likelihood of developing age-related diseases including cancer. Researchers have now created a landmark atlas of how healthy ...

A new lawsuit claims that a hairstylist developed bladder cancer from working with a dye chemical for decades. The answer: quite possibly. Even more intriguing, the dye itself is harmless—but its ...

How does tidy storage lead to better medicine? Epigenetics is becoming an ever more important field of research, focusing not ...

New research about how smoking damages DNA could open new possibilities for targeted cancer prevention. Israeli and US ...

By Balambal Suryanarayanan CRISPR-Cas9 is a repurposed gene editing tool that allows scientists to cut, replace, and insert pieces of DNA in precise regions along the strand. Courtesy of NIH Image ...

The research suggests that the body's ability to fix DNA damage is more important than the extent of the damage itself in ...

Oligonucleotide therapies are among the most promising biological therapeutics. They target disease at a different stage of ...

Aging is a privilege, but it also brings risks-including an increased likelihood of developing age-related diseases including ...

A team of Israeli researchers has identified how the structure and chemical changes in the DNA influence the risk of ...