High levels of endogenously gen- erated DNA damage drive oncogen- esis, sustain malignant progression and increase therapy resistance. In a paper recently published in Cell Research, Liu and colleagues added additiona...
Chemotherapy is a predominant strategy to treat cancer and is of- ten associated with toxicities like severe diarrhea that puts patients at additional risk and can hinder treatment strategies. Lian et aL recently expl...
Toll-Like Receptors (TLRs) play critical roles in the early innate im- mune response to invading pathogens by sensing microorganisms; a num- ber of accessory molecules have been shown to assist microbial recognition...
Adding to the Histone Code at DNA double-strand breaks, Mailand and colleagues now uncover non- degradative ubiquitin marks on linker histone HI as key signaling intermediates in the DNA damage signal transduction cas...
Neuronal activity-induced gene expression is crucial for the development and plasticity of the brain and for learning and memory. In a recent study published in Cell, Madabhushi et al. report that neuronal activity tr...
Exosomes, small membrane vesicles (30-100 nm) of endocytic origin secreted by most cell types, contain functional biomolecules, which can be horizontally transferred to recipient cells [1]. Exosomes bear a specific ...
The way in which the DNA damage response signals the presence of DNA lesions and mediates DNA repair has not been fully elucidated. Now, Gao et al. reveal that diRNA-Ago2 complexes recruit RAD51 to the break sites.
Dear Editor, In the past few years, the development of sequence- specific DNA nucleases has progressed rapidly and such nucleases have shown their power in generating efficient targeted mutagenesis and other genome e...
Genome editing of model organisms is essential for gene function analysis and is thus critical for human health and agricultural production. The current technolo- gies used for genome editing include ZFN (zinc-finger...
Two recent papers in Science il lustrate how the prokaryotic CRIS PRCas immune system machinery, which typically targets invasive genetic elements such as viruses and plasmids, can be converted into a sophisticated mo...