New research from a team of genome scientists and DNA damage response experts breaks new ground in understanding the function of a protein currently limited in clinical trials for cancer treatments.

Most of our genome is often written off as “junk DNA”, meaning it doesn’t encode for genes that get made into proteins. This so-called junk consists of accumulated DNA elements like viral DNA that got ...

Researchers at the University of Geneva have built a molecular system that can tell the difference between a cancer cell and a healthy one, then selectively destroy the tumor cell while leaving normal ...