Unexpected slowdowns or spikes in this signal were often interpreted as knots in DNA. But now, a new study published Aug. 12 ...

In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of DNA’s structure—the now famous double ...

New research from the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery is tackling a complex packing problem. Thanks to the development of a powerful new computational tool introduced in a study published earlier ...

DNA’s chemical cousin, RNA, was the messenger that carries DNA instructions from the double helix in the cell’s nucleus to ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

First step to untangle DNA: Supercoiled DNA captures gyrase like a lasso ropes cattle Date: April 11, 2024 Source: Baylor College of Medicine Summary: Researchers reveal how DNA gyrase resolves ...

A research team at Kyoto University has discovered STAG3-cohesin, a new mitotic cohesin complex that helps establish the ...

Sep 18, 2024 DNA origami with cargo function (Nanowerk News) In the world of nanotechnology, the development of dynamic systems that respond to molecular signals is becoming increasingly important.

Children living in war-torn countries not only suffer from poor mental health outcomes, but war may cause adverse biological changes at the DNA level, which could have lifelong health impacts ...