Scientists have recently been learning more about the importance of small bits of circular genetic material known as ...

A research team from Flinders University found that small, circular pieces of genetic material called circular RNAs might ...

Extrachromosomal circular DNA (ecDNA) represents a distinct genomic entity that exists independent of the primary chromosomal structure. In cancer, ecDNA is recognised as a potent driver of oncogene ...

Professor Dongsheng Liu of Tsinghua University, Professor Ziyang Hao of Capital Medical University, and Researcher Yuanchen Dong of the Institute of ...

Cancer is the leading cause of disease-related death in childhood. This is in part due to cancer-associated genes called oncogenes that can be found far from chromosomes in cell nuclei on ring-shaped ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A previously unknown type of DNA damage in the mitochondria, the tiny power plants inside our cells, could shed light on how our bodies sense and respond to stress. The findings ...

The findings may have important implications for diseases linked to mitochondrial dysfunction. A newly identified form of DNA damage inside mitochondria, the small structures that supply energy to our ...

A previously unknown type of DNA damage in the mitochondria, the tiny power plants inside our cells, could shed light on how our bodies sense and respond to stress. The findings of the UC ...