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Jyoti Vakhlu [email protected] From laws of inheritance to the molecule of heredity – a journey of scientific ...

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When DNA breaks, cells must repair it accurately to prevent harmful mutations. Researchers have discovered that during a key ...

Colibactin is a powerful toxin produced by Escherichia coli and other bacteria living in the human gut. This highly unstable ...

Cedars-Sinai scientists have developed an experimental drug that repairs DNA and serves as a prototype for a new class of ...

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After two decades in the making, scientists have cracked the code on a drug that can repair DNA, setting the scene for a new ...

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have shown that DNA inflexibility, or rigidity, inside the ...

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