In order to survive, cancer cells often rely on the protein kinase C epsilon (PKC-epsilon) signaling pathway to sort out tangled DNA that would otherwise trigger their destruction, according to a team ...

Animal germ line cells, such as sperm and ova, protect their genomes against transposon-inflicted damage via an immune system operated by a family of proteins called Piwi and Piwi-interacting RNA ...

Mevalonic aciduria (MA, OMIM #610377), a rare autosomal recessive disease caused by mutations affecting an enzyme of the cholesterol pathway, represents the most severe form of a periodic fever called ...