Tag: DNA Repair

Molecular & Cellular Biology

What Happens Inside a Cell Every Second

The living cell is, by any reasonable measure, the most sophisticated chemical system known to science. Packed into a volume that may span as little as 10 micrometers (um) across, a typical mammalian cell executes thousands of overlapping biochemical programmes…

Biotechnology & Innovation

CRISPR: Editing Life

Few developments in the history of molecular biology have arrived with the disruptive force of CRISPR-Cas9. What began as a peculiar observation in the immune memory of bacteria has, in roughly a decade, been engineered into a molecular tool capable…