SIOUX CITY -- Kevin Bock knew he either wanted to be a soldier or a video game designer when he grew up. That was until the Spalding Park Environmental Science Elementary School fifth grader ...
The human genome consists of 3 billion base pairs, and when a cell divides, it takes about seven hours to complete making a copy of its DNA. That's almost 120,000 base pairs per second. At that ...
New research sheds light on how cells repair damaged DNA. For the first time, the team has mapped the activity of repair proteins in individual human cells. The study demonstrates how these proteins ...