In a leap forward for genetic and biomedical research, two scientists at the University of Missouri have developed a powerful ...

Conceding that discovery of the structure of DNA was as important as the working ... lets physicists take a peculiar kind of look inside certain kinds of molecules—those that form crystals.

Find out how DNA is actually packed inside cells. Biology textbooks are ... Rosalind Franklin's famous image, that solved the double helix structure, was made by shooting DNA with X-rays, which ...

"The DNA double helix is one of ... "What these cryo-EM images showed us is that the G4 structure can get trapped—like an ...

In its structure, DNA contains a pattern for producing amino ... Nucleic acids are named for where they're found—inside the nuclei of cells—and for the acidic phosphate groups discovered ...

But James Watson and Francis Crick's claim was a valid one, for they had in fact discovered the structure of DNA, the chemical that encodes instructions for building and replicating almost all ...

The reason is that they are markedly unstable and get decomposed rapidly when inside an organism ... could be firmly attached. And DNA could be just such a base structure in the future.

Researchers reveal how DNA gyrase resolves DNA entanglements. The findings not only provide novel insights into this fundamental biological mechanism but also have potential practical applications.

Picture in your mind a traditional “landline” telephone with a coiled cord connecting the handset to the phone. The coiled telephone cord and the DNA double helix that stores the genetic ...