To the untrained eye, the tiny spots in the tumor cell wouldn’t look like much. In fact, other scientists had noticed them in cancer before but had generally dismissed them as a mere curiosity. But to ...
Extrachromosomal circular DNA (ecDNA) represents a distinct genomic entity that exists independent of the primary chromosomal structure. In cancer, ecDNA is recognised as a potent driver of oncogene ...
A study of newly created databases of medulloblastoma has found that patients with tumors containing circular extrachromosomal DNA - loops of DNA found outside of regular chromosomes - are twice as ...
Like its viral cousins, a somewhat parasitic DNA sequence called a retrotransposon has been found borrowing the cell's own machinery to achieve its goals. In a new work appearing online Wednesday in ...
Intergalactic Therapeutics has launched with $75 million in series A financing to develop a nonviral gene therapy. Most gene therapies rely on viral vectors to deliver DNA into the body, but ...
Like its viral cousins, a somewhat parasitic DNA sequence called a retrotransposon has been found borrowing the cell’s own machinery to achieve its goals. In a new work appearing online Wednesday in ...
In September 1970, Janet Mertz joined the biochemistry department at Stanford University. She was one of only six new graduate students in the department and the first female one admitted in nine ...