A new paper describes how scientists used the tool to identify an important role for TRIM24 in mediating telomere repair after cells divide.

Researchers have developed a new tool to understand how cancer cells repair their telomeres, offering insights that could guide cancer therapy development.

The psychedelic psilocybin, found in magic mushrooms, slows certain hallmarks of aging in human cells and older mice, a lab study suggests.

Wild polyploid strawberries hold clues to how plants evolve and adapt to harsh environments. In this study, scientists sequenced the genomes of two ...

The drug, which Repare recently sidelined, has shown promising activity in a patient with ALT-positive melanoma that researchers want to study in others.

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain features and ...

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published July 21 in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain features and provides a road map to discover many more. The research could lead ...

Ayodeji Adegunsoye, MD, PhD, MSc, discusses how emerging genetic insights like telomere-related mutations may reshape disease ...

What scientists once dismissed as junk DNA may actually be some of the most powerful code in our genome. A new international ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have uncovered the ...

Once dismissed as “junk,” pieces of ancient viral DNA in our genome are now known to help control which genes are turned on or off.