Biochemists Stephen West and Simon Boulton, both global leaders at the Francis Crick Institute, have recently unveiled crucial details of homologous recombination, a DNA repair process that ...

Mixing two genomes through sex and genetic recombination tends to produce offspring ... in just the right way for these models to work in real-life situations. These are substantial costs ...

Homologous recombination plays essential roles in the repair of DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) and collapsed replication forks. The fundamental reaction in homologous recombination is the exchange of ...

Researchers probe the genetics of a group of bacteria known to extensively swap DNA sequences with other species—blurring the species boundaries. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with ...

Across all life forms, helicases play a crucial role in genomic stability, DNA repair, and recombination ... to capture its continuous motion in real time. In the present study, the researchers ...