Cells have evolved careful checks to ensure DNA is copied only once, but how they switch on replication at the right moment ...
Computational chemists at the University of Amsterdam's Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences have developed a ...
They were hardly modest, these two brash young scientists who in 1953 declared to patrons of the Eagle Pub in Cambridge, England, that they had "found the secret of life." But James Watson and Francis ...
A team led by Professor Michal Hocek at IOCB Prague has explored the limits of the structure and function of DNA and successfully pushed forward known boundaries. Their latest research has just been ...
DNA aptamers are powerful molecular tools in biosensing, bioimaging and therapeutics. However, a limited understanding of their tertiary structures and binding mechanisms hinders their further ...
Researchers have captured the first atomic-level views of human SMUG1, a key enzyme involved in repairing damaged DNA.
DNA is the molecular basis of heredity, the inherited traits that pass between generations in a person's family tree. Embodied in the sequence of base pairs, DNA carries information between ...
James Watson, the scientist who became famous for helping discover the structure of DNA in 1953 and notorious decades later for suggesting that Black people are intellectually inferior to whites, has ...
The fixed idea that DNA is only a molecule that stores genetic information is being challenged. KAIST researchers have ...