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Study reveals how ecDNA forms, drives cancer drug resistance
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 24 (ANI): Researchers led by Ludwig San Diego Member Don Cleveland and Peter Campbell of the Sanger Center have solved the mystery of how free-floating circular DNA fragments, which are almost exclusively found in cancer cells, drive gene amplification to generate d
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Are male genes from Mars, female genes from Venus?
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], September 11 (ANI): Males and females share the vast majority of their genomes, except for the sprinkling of genes, located on the so-called X and Y sex chromosomes.
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Here's what controls the tips of our chromosomes
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 28 (ANI): In a new, a research team from Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia (IGC; Portugal), led by Jose Escandell and Miguel Godinho Ferreira, discovered a key aspect of the regulation of telomeres – structures that appear at the tips of our chromosomes.
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Gene critical for male sex development identified
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.A.], June 15 (ANI): A group of scientists from the Northwestern University has identified a key enhancer of Sox9 - a gene critical for male sex development.
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Cells' 'Hail Mary' mechanism to rescue broken chromosomes
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jun 5 (ANI): A recent study has found that the 'Hail Mary' mechanism can rescue the cells with severely damaged chromosomes and insights into this method could lead to new cancer therapies.
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