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 is fundamental to the biology of all life on Earth, but how many of us actually know what it is or what it's made of?

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. The double-stranded DNA that results from this ...

Insert the unnatural base pair at each snipped-out DNA damage site to label it. Amplify, by means of PCR, the DNA fragments that contain the damage sites that are labeled by the unnatural third base.

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 ...

Each strand has repeating units of a nitrogenous base, deoxyribose sugar, and a phosphate group. There are several interactions present within a strand and between two strands that stabilize the DNA.

Each base on one strand of DNA joins its partner base on an opposing strand, so that the base adenine pairs with thymine (A T), and guanine pairs with cytosine (G C).

CRISPR consists of two parts: The first is a strand of RNA that scientists have programmed to locate a string of letters in a DNA sequence. The second is an enzyme -- usually Cas9 -- that serves ...

These four molecular bases—adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine—pair with each other using hydrogen bonds to form the foundation for a DNA strand. There are only the two base pairs—A bonds ...

Base-stacking is not well-studied in double-stranded DNA. Credit: KTSDESIGN/SPL/Getty Images. Researchers have provided new insights into how bases in a single DNA strand stack on top of each other 1.

The synthetic DNA had none of the A-T pairs that occur in natural DNA. In Jerusalem, Porath’s team immobilized the strands on a metal surface kept under vacuum at about –200°C.

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 ...