Credit: Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/ What is DNA, and how does it work? You don't need a degree in genetics to understand. Here, we'll give an overview of DNA and answer questions ...

DNA damage catalogued by replacing damaged sites with unnatural base pairs, amplifying the corresponding strands with PCR, and then applying nanopore sequencing.

Two synthetic base pairs have been added to the DNA of E. coli, and the microbes are thriving.

A new type of DNA editing enzyme lets scientists directly and permanently change single base pairs of DNA from A*T to G*C. The process could one day enable precise DNA surgery to correct mutations ...

Building off the powerful gene-editing technology known as CRISPR, researchers have created a new tool that can target and change a single letter in a sequence of DNA.

This base-to-base bonding is not random; rather, each A in one strand always pairs with a T in the other strand, and each C always pairs with a G.

Base pairs are the fundamental units of nucleic acids, formed by complementary nucleobases bound by hydrogen bonds. They play crucial roles in genetics, DNA structure, and biotechnology applications.

The base is hydrophobic, that is, it has oily properties, and this turned out to be enough to pair up two bases in a strand of DNA. They described their results on 14 March at a meeting of the ...

There is about 12 feet of DNA in a human cell but it is packaged into nucleosomes -- lengths of 147 base pairs each wrapped around eight special proteins. A nucleosome looks kind of like the lumpy ...

There are several interactions present within a strand (intrastrand interactions) and between two strands (interstrand) that stabilize 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 ...