In the study published in Nature Aging, the scientists report that gene expression 'memory' can persist across the lifespan, and may present a novel target for improving late-life health.
March 19, 2023Exercise has been found to balance oxidants like free radicals that accumulate in cells and damage DNA, regulate the inflammatory response, and improve the mechanism by which cells defend themselves against these stressors.
January 18, 2023An enzyme that protects human cells against viruses can help drive cancer evolution towards greater malignancy by causing myriad mutations in cancer cells, a new study has shown.
December 29, 2022Tharoor said that the Gandhi family is in the DNA of the grand-old-party and no party chief can distance himself from the Gandhi family.
October 1, 2022The late actress, Nichelle Nichols, who died in July aged 89, will have her remains jetted up into space on the Enterprise Flight's Vulcan Rocket later this year to honour her iconic role in 'Star Trek'.
August 26, 2022Thirty patients are taking part in the trial for head and neck cancer. Half will be given the vaccine as soon as they finish conventional treatment.
July 6, 2022In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, he said the Department of Biotechnology in the Ministry of Science and Technology has formulated ‘The DNA Technology (Use and Application) Regulation Bill’ to provide, regulation of the use and application of Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) technology with the aim to establish the identity of certain categories of persons, including victims, offenders, suspects, undertrials, missing persons and unknown deceased persons.
April 7, 2022Lifestyle, or put another way 'bad habits', is one of the textbook explanations for why some people are at higher risk for cancer.
January 4, 2021Cell specialisation demonstrates the unity and diversity of biology.
October 7, 2020Nucleosomes are packed together to form chromatin fibers and chromosomes.
June 3, 2020Bacteria can share many different types of genes as long as the genes have mobile segments of DNA.
January 26, 2020Early experiences of violence Early experiences of violence may confer lasting damage at may confer lasting damage at the basic levels of nervous, the basic levels of nervous, endocrine, and immune endocrine, and immune systems, and can even systems, and can even influence the genetic influence the genetic alteration of DNA alteration of DNA.
December 30, 2019The study, published in the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, focused on breast cancer cells in mice.
September 15, 2019An almost six decade-old experiment had found that messenger ribonucleic acid guides the synthesis of polypeptide chains.
August 7, 2019A team of scientists has published a paper recently that looks into how amino acids formed on early Earth to birth complex life.
July 17, 2019The study shows that DNA repair gene expression is lower at baseline among night workers and further decreases after acute sleep deprivation, which supports the postulation that night workers demonstrate impaired DNA repair.
January 27, 2019