Making Ends Meet: Researchers Find That a Protein Superglue is Crucial for DNA Damage Repair

New Understanding for Cancer Treatments

08-Feb-2024 - Our DNA undergoes constant damage and repair. The most severe damage happens when the DNA breaks into two pieces, known as a double-strand DNA break. It creates two loose DNA ends that, if left unfixed, can lead to cell death. Researchers from the Biotechnology Center (BIOTEC) of the Dresden ...

Researchers Find New Pathway for HIV Invasion of Cell Nucleus

17-Aug-2023 - A study has identified a new pathway that human immune deficiency virus (HIV) uses to enter the nucleus of a healthy cell, where it can then replicate and go on to invade other cells. The researchers also identified three proteins that are needed for the virus to carry out the invasion and have ...

Molecular motor-powered biocomputers

22-Mar-2017 - Crashing computers or smartphones and software security holes that allow hackers to steal millions of passwords could be prevented if it were possible to design and verify error-free software. Unfortunately, to date, this is a problem that neither engineers nor supercomputers can solve. One ...