During the annual Dr Stuart Saunders Memorial Lecture, Emer Prof Wieland Gevers explored how and why humans age.

Although DNA is tightly packed and protected within the cell nucleus, it is constantly threatened by damage from normal ...

If severe DNA damage is not repaired, the consequences for the health of cells and tissues are dramatic. A study led by ...

A major advance in cell biology has revealed how our cells safeguard their genetic material during one of the most vulnerable moments in their life cycle. The study identifies a specific protein ...

A new study shows that cancer damages its own DNA by pushing key genes to work too hard. Researchers found that the most ...

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Irvine associate professor of physiology and biophysics, ...

Every second, millions of cells in your body divide in two. In the space of an hour, they duplicate their DNA and grow a web ...