Is the key to living over 200 hidden in the icy sea of the Arctic? The bowhead whale, an 80,000-kilogram insulating blubber ...

Researchers have discovered a new genetic link to the most common type of bone cancer among children and young ...

Bowhead whales—some of the longest-lived mammals on the planet—may owe their impressive lifespans to a knack for cellular ...

Tardigrades make a unique damage suppressor protein that researchers are working to harness for medicine, space, agriculture, ...

DNA can be damaged by normal cellular processes as well as external factors such as UV radiation and chemicals. Such damage can lead to breaks in the DNA strand. If DNA damage is not properly repaired ...

Organisms like eukaryotes and prokaryotes have sophisticated mechanisms of DNA repair after damage. Failure of repairing the DNA damage is considered to be the cause of induction of cell death, ...

One of the biggest challenges in cancer treatment is chemoresistance: Tumors that initially respond well to chemotherapy ...

Melatonin intervention linked to borderline significant increase in urinary 8-OH-dG, which is indicator of oxidative DNA damage repair capacity. (HealthDay News) — For night shift workers, melatonin ...

King’s College London researchers discovered that parts of our DNA once thought to be “junk” can actually help destroy cancer ...

New research from the Kind Group at the Hubrecht Institute sheds light on how cells repair damaged DNA. For the first time, the team has mapped the activity of repair proteins in individual human ...

A research team has discovered that accumulated DNA damage in the retina is a key contributor to age-related macular degeneration and that targeting specific retinal cell types may lead to treatments ...