The foundation of biological inheritance is DNA replication

Researchers at the RIKEN SPring-8 Center in Harima, Japan have clarified for the first time how chromatin in archaea, one of the three evolutionary branches of organisms in nature, binds to DNA.

Before any cell - healthy or cancerous - can divide, it has to replicate its DNA.

MADRID, March 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Life Length, the world's leading telomere testing and services company, announced that Drs Sandy Chang and Kathleen Collins have joined

Inhibiting telomerase, an enzyme that rescues malignant cells from destruction by extending the protective caps on the ends of chromosomes, kills tumor cells but also triggers resistance pathways that allow cancer to survive and spread, scientists report in the Feb. 17 issue of Cell.