Subtle signs of skin cancer you shouldn't ignore When the weather gets warmer and daylight hours longer, people are more likely to spend time outdoors in the sun. This also means there’s an increased ...

Johanna Sweet and Keith Little carry a burden far heavier than most parents. Their 9-year-old daughter, Emma, suffers from a rare genetic condition that makes her skin super-sensitive to light.

XPC protein acts as a sensor to detect various abnormalities in the DNA structure. The faithful repair of DNA is ensured by using the basal transcription factor TFIIH and XPA protein to verify the ...

Simple everyday pleasures like going for a walk outside or swimming at the beach would be enough to commit twins Thomas and Vincent to “certain death”. The 23-year-olds were born with an incredibly ...

Researchers decode repair mechanism during transcription of genetic information. Cockayne syndrome is a severe autosomal recessive disorder caused by defective DNA repair mechanisms. People with the ...