An international team of scientists led by UC Davis researchers has discovered that DNA repair in cancer cells is not a one-way street as previously believed.

UCLA life scientists and colleagues have produced one of the first high-resolution genetic maps for African American populations.

Scientists at the University of Oxford and Harvard Medical School have constructed the world's most detailed genetic map.

DNA is under constant attack, from internal factors like free radicals and external ones like ionizing radiation.

PARIS, April 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cellectis (Alternext: ALCLS), the genome engineering specialist, has announced today that it has signed a license agreement with a pharmaceutical company covering certain uses of its homologous recombination technology patents and patent applications, in the oncology therapeutic field. This agreement has triggered an immediate payment of euro 3M ($4.2M) to Cellectis. Further details of the arrangement have not been disclosed.