What do blind cavefish, dinosaurs, and sunburnt humans have in common? A lot more than you may realize, according to a thought-provoking new study. New research published today in Current Biology ...

Plants are continuously subjected to UV-B radiation (UV-B; 280-320 nm) as a component of sunlight causing damage to the genome. For elimination of DNA damage, a set of repair mechanisms, mainly ...

Feast your eyes on the blind Somalian cavefish, which has—like mammals—mysteriously lost the ability to use light to fix damaged DNA. Hectonichus / Wikimedia Commons Pale, shrunken and blind, the ...

HAMMOND — Andrew Norlin, of St. Paul’s School in Covington, was the overall winner of the 2019 Region 8 Science Fair at Southeastern Louisiana University. His winning project, “The Effects of Visible ...

The first mammals first lived some 160 million years ago, in a world ruled by reptiles. And now scientists suggest that hiding in the dark from these terrifying beasts may have left an imprint in ...

Ultraviolet (UV) radiation plays a multifaceted role in the dynamic interplay between spider mites, particularly Tetranychus urticae, and their host plants. Research has demonstrated that both UV-B ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 89, No. 8 (Apr. 15, 1992), pp. 3300-3304 (5 pages) Incubation of UV-irradiated plasmid DNA with a protein extract ...