A few years ago, the advent of technology known as CRISPR was a major breakthrough in the scientific world. Developed from a ...

For the first time, Professor Veyrier and his team at INRS have discovered a family of enzymes that can cut specific sequences in single-stranded DNA. These enzymes, called site-specific ...

A new study from Weill Cornell Medicine provides insights into how cells maintain the tiny end caps of chromosomes as they ...

The enzymes that handle DNA molecules are often called "polymerases," but the -ase suffix denotes an enzyme. When not ...

Acurx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACXP) ("Acurx" or the "Company"), a late-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of small molecule antibiotics for difficult-to-treat bacterial ...

Upon binding, helicases melt the DNA, breaking the chemicals bonds holding the double helix together. They then pull the two strands apart, allowing other enzymes to complete the replication.

Biology lectures teach students that when a cell’s replication machinery comes together, DNA polymerase takes off down the double-helix like a car on a highway ...

Upon binding, helicases melt the DNA, breaking the chemicals bonds holding the double helix together. They then pull the two strands apart, allowing other enzymes to complete the replication.

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have identified a small molecule, PZL-A, that restores function in the defective ...

DNA is often seen as the blueprint of life—carrying the code to govern the development and traits of an organism—but “there ...

the team of scientists were able to visualise a helicase enzyme (nature's DNA unzipping machine) in the process of unwinding DNA. DNA helicases are essential during DNA replication because they ...