What made ribose the sugar of choice for life's code? Scientists at Scripps Research may have cracked a major part of this ...

Scientists have twisted DNA into programmable nanostructures that form themselves — and could reshape future materials for light, sound, and electronics.

Ultraviolet (UV) rays from sunlight can cause DNA damage that leads to skin aging and cancer. Fortunately, our bodies have a ...

In living organisms today, complex molecules like RNA and DNA are constructed with the help of enzymes. So how did these ...

A predictive biophysical model that integrates protein-DNA structures and sequences to accurately determine genomic binding sites and affinities of DNA-binding proteins.

SMC (structural maintenance of chromosomes) protein complexes are ring-shaped molecular motors essential for genome folding. Despite recent progress, the detailed molecu ...

In biology textbooks and beyond, the human genome and DNA therein typically are taught in only one dimension. While it can be ...

Computational predictions of biomolecular structure via artificial intelligence (AI) based approaches, as exemplified by AlphaFold software, have the potential to model of all life’s biomolecules. We ...

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?

The genetic information on organisms is stored in the cell nucleus in the form of higher-ordered DNA structures. Here, we use DNA framework nanostructures (DFNs) to simulate the compaction and ...

Keywords: genetic relationship, population structure, SNPs, DNA fingerprint, SNP markers Citation: Xu W, Gong C, Mai P, Li Z, Sun B and Li T (2024) Genetic diversity and population structure analysis ...