Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Double-strand breaks in DNA can be deadly. Victor Golmer/iStock via Getty Images Plus Your DNA is continually damaged by sources ...

Insights could not only pave the way for new treatment strategies for genetic disorders, cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, but also enhance gene-editing technologies.

You can always be judged by your scars. This is the idea that sums up what researchers at Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) claim is one of the new breakthroughs in basic and biomedical ...

Study establishes for the first time that defective DNA repair may be the major driver of several clinical features associated with a subset of patients with 22q11.2 distal deletion syndrome ...

What causes gray matter loss in Multiple Sclerosis? New research identifies DNA damage in CUX2 neurons as a primary driver of MS progression.

Researchers from the University of Birmingham have uncovered answers that provide the detail to explain two specific DNA repair processes that have long been in question. The publication of two papers ...

A protein in bowhead whales, CIRBP, enhances DNA repair in human cells, possibly extending lifespans. Learn about this study ...

DNA repair proteins act like the body's editors, constantly finding and reversing damage to our genetic code. Researchers have long struggled to understand how cancer cells hijack one of these ...