DNA Polymerase Works in Short Bursts Rather than One Long Stretch The enzyme that copies and repairs DNA is more dynamic than originally thought.

These structures show Pfu DNA polymerase in its natural (left) and mirror-image (right) forms. To synthesize the mirror image polymerase, researchers constructed two fragments (pink and blue) and ...

Researchers present a high-resolution structure of the monkeypox virus DNA polymerase holoenzyme.

RNA polymerase functions by binding to specific DNA sequences called "promoters" found near the beginning of genes that are going to be made into RNA.

The misunderstood polymerase theta has been shown to be able to read RNA back into DNA in mammalian cells, up-ending scientific dogma.

Blocking that tool—an enzyme known as polymerase—at once disrupts the virus's ability to copy and to repair DNA, exposing an Achilles' heel that could be targeted with a therapeutic.

If DNA polymerases become less accurate in space, the already high mutation rate will increase even further as DNA is copied, with cancer as one of the potential consequences for astronauts.

Promega files patent for first-of-its-kind enzyme that minimizes stutter artifacts in STR analysis Reduced stutter polymerase enhances accuracy, efficiency and reliability of DNA profiling in ...