Allison McClure, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the CU School of Medicine. She is focused on learning all about how cells replicate, or ...

If you are anything like us, whenever you plan a journey, you spend a remarkable amount of time thinking about the start and ...

DNA2 is implicated in DNA repair and replication 12. A prevailing model posits that a role in Okazaki fragment processing during lagging-strand replication renders DNA2 essential for cell ...

A new study has uncovered a hidden step that helps the deadliest malaria parasite survive and multiply inside the human body. Researchers studying Plasmodium falciparum found that the parasite relies ...

Researchers shed new light on G-quadruplexes, a type of secondary DNA structure that has attracted attention as a potential therapeutic target in cancer. Every day, billions of cells in your body ...

Aneuploidy is relatively common during early mammalian embryogenesis, although the exact frequency is unclear 5,6,7,8. Factors contributing to this include the lack of stringent cell-cycle checkpoints ...

For almost 60 years, scientists have tried to understand why DNA doesn’t replicate wildly and uncontrollably every time a cell divides – which they need to do constantly. Without this process, we ...