A groundbreaking study has revealed that your mom and dad’s DNA don’t just pass on telomere length, they actively reshape it ...

Penn biologists present new evidence on how telomere length is inherited in early embryos. Their findings open new avenues ...

Visualizing and quantifying DNA replication dynamics in living human cells remains challenging. Here, a new super-resolution ...

Much the way the caps on the ends of a shoelace prevent it from fraying, telomeres - regions of repetitive DNA sequences and a protein structure - protect the tips of chromosomes from damage. Every ...

Spaceflight may make certain types of human ... DNA becomes 'frayed' and damaged, and cells don't work properly," NASA officials wrote. "One of the most striking discoveries from the NASA Twins Study ...

Researchers at Spain’s CNIO have mapped 20,000 distinct DNA repair “scars,” building the first human REPAIRome. This atlas ...