The HDBuzz team caught up with editor emeritus and Huntington's disease specialist, Prof Ed Wild to hear his thoughts on what ...

LIG4 syndrome is an exceptionally rare disorder caused by a genetic mutation that prevents the body from repairing damaged ...

Comparison of that ancient DNA with modern human DNA showed that the two species had interbred and that people today still carry the genetic fingerprint of that intermixing. Since then ...

For this reason, they are at greater risk of accumulating damage and must develop alternative repair pathways to avoid dysfunction. Scientists do not understand how neuronal DNA damage is ...

While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows. This means ...

"The surprising result of our research is that DNA repair, which normally protects healthy cells, determines how cancer cells die following radiotherapy," said Prof Cesare. "The DNA inside our ...

Using advanced imaging techniques and precise microfluidics control to stretch out curly DNA into a straight line ... thermal energy -- result in blurry images and decreased lateral resolution." ...

A Washington State University Spokane research team has made a breakthrough at the cellular level in studying the secrets of ...

Of course, though, testing a child's parentage based on physical features is far too subjective — that's typically where DNA tests come in. Such tests can offer a far more scientific way of ...