RAD52 has already shown promise as a drug target. Inhibitors of the protein can selectively kill cancerous cells while ...

A University of Iowa-led study has revealed the unexpected structure adopted by the DNA repair protein RAD52 as it binds and ...

DNA was largely accepted as the genetic molecule. Scientists still needed to figure out this molecule's structure to be sure, and to understand how it worked. In 1948, Linus Pauling discovered ...

This structure, announced in their famous paper in the April 1953 issue of Nature, explained how the DNA molecule could replicate itself during cell division, enabling organisms to reproduce ...

In its structure, DNA contains a pattern for producing amino acids, proteins, lipids, sugars, and every other biomolecule an organism makes. The parts of a DNA molecule that have these ...

Researchers harness the power of the world’s most advanced supercomputers to simulate the inner workings of cellular ...

Kanazawa University and colleagues have achieved a breakthrough in understanding sperm DNA packaging. Using high-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM), they captured the real-time process of ...

Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves. For ...

(Getty Images) Two new landmark studies show how a seeming tangle of DNA is actually organized into a structure that coordinates thousands of genes to form a sperm cell. The work, published March 3 as ...

According to this rule, the amount of adenine is equal to the amount of thymine, and the amount of guanine is equal to the amount of cytosine in a double-stranded DNA molecule. This 1:1 ratio of A:T ...