V(D)J recombination is a fundamental genetic mechanism that underpins the adaptive immune response in jawed vertebrates. This process orchestrates the rearrangement of variable (V), diversity (D) and ...
Belgian researchers from VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology and VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology have developed a new toolbox of 16 different short DNA sequences that allow triggering ...
A recent study, undertaken by researchers at the Tokyo Metropolitan University and the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science (both Japan), unravels key steps in the process of homologous ...