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USA Science and Engineering Festival – Home

April 16, 2016   careers, Commercial Space Flight, computer science, Education, genes, Human Space Flight, International Space Station, ISS, Kids, Large Hadron Collider, LHC, Mars, Mathematics, Mathematics News, nasa, National Science Foundation, NSF, Persevering in Science, physics, Planetary Science, planets, R&D, Research & Development, Science, Science Careers, Scientists, Space, space missions, space travel, STEM, technology

USA Science and Engineering FestivalUSA Science and Engineering FestivalCelebrate STEM at the largest science festival in the country! Join the 4th USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C. April 16-17, 2016.
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The secret to safe DNA repair

November 16, 2015   biology, Disease, DNA, genes, genetic engineering, genetics
The secret to safe DNA repair

Dr. Michael Hendzel. Credit: Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta

Michael Hendzel knows all too well that there is little that people can do to control the stability of their genetic code. But he hopes his latest research will help impact this elusive and crucial aspect of medicine. Published in Nature Cell Biology, this research explores a previously unknown secret to DNA repair.

The secret to safe DNA repair

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Sixth DNA base discovered?

May 15, 2015   biology, DNA, DNA Base, genes, genetics

Is there a sixth DNA base? A team of researchers suggests that the methyl-adenine that would regulate the expression of certain genes in eukaryotic cells could have a specific role in stem cells and in early stages of development.

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