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Advancing cellular health through modern metabolic science

Over the last two decades, scientific attention has increasingly shifted toward understanding how cellular energy system ...

Replicating bacterial DNA relies on accordion-like folds to separate, researchers discover

When bacteria cells replicate, they do so a little differently than human cells do. They don't undergo mitosis, a splitting ...

An AI-guided gene-editing tool for more precise and safer DNA correction

Researchers at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) have developed a ...

Cancer’s Deadly Paradox: How Tumors Break Their Own DNA To Keep Growing

Cancer’s strongest gene switches push DNA into damaging overdrive, creating repeated breaks and repairs that may fuel tumor ...
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Whale protein discovery may unlock human lifespans of 200 years, scientists say

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

Bowhead whales may hold the key to humans living up to 200 years

The Iñupiat people of Alaska have long said that bowhead whales live two human lifetimes. That oral knowledge turned out to be conservative.
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Study links an ALS-related protein to DNA repair, cancer, and dementia risk

A protein long studied for its role in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia now appears to serve a second, equally critical function, safeguarding the integrity of human DNA.