Researchers shed new light on G-quadruplexes, a type of secondary DNA structure that has attracted attention as a potential therapeutic target in cancer.

Discover how scientists captured the action of helicases in DNA replication, revealing crucial insights into this fundamental ...

Bacteriophages, the most abundant life form on Earth, infect bacterial cells and influence the structure of the microbial ...

Every day, billions of cells in your body divide, helping to replace old and injured cells with new ones. And each time this ...

Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...

The applied physicist explains how the structure of 52,000-year-old genes hint at the biology of an extinct animal ...

To be awarded an official English Heritage plaque, the proposed recipient (nominated by members of the public) must have died at least 20 years ago and will only be awarded a plaque if there is a ...

In the new work, Rothemund and his colleagues used DNA origami to create a lilypad-like structure—a flat, circular surface about 100 nanometers in diameter, tethered by a DNA linker to a gold ...

Pancreatic cancer’s deadly resilience may be tied to extrachromosomal DNA, which allows tumor cells to rapidly adapt to ...

Those short, added pieces of DNA fold the scaffold and give it shape, acting as "staples" that hold the structure together. The technique can then be used to create shapes ranging from a map of ...

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 two papers in ...

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take ...