Not all DNA looks like the familiar twisted ladder. Sometimes, parts of our genetic code fold into unusual shapes. One such ...

Not all DNA looks like the familiar twisted ladder. Sometimes, parts of our genetic code fold into unusual shapes. One such structure, the G-quadruplex (G4), looks like a knot. These knots can play ...

Our crystals allowed us to determine exactly what the structure of this DNA looks like using X-rays. This has revealed that certain DNA sequences have special, additional interactions which help ...

Our crystals allowed us to determine exactly what the structure of this DNA looks like using X-rays. This has revealed that certain DNA sequences have special, additional interactions which help ...

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 ...

RNA strands are shorter than DNA strands. RNA sometimes forms a secondary double helix structure, but only intermittently. DNA is a much longer polymer than RNA. A chromosome, for example, is a single ...

Her colleague Maurice Wilkins was independently pursuing DNA’s structure, and she had grown so miserable there, largely because of their rivalry, that she had found a position at another university.

A piece that aired on NPR this week about the discovery of DNA's structure neglected to mention the significant contribution of Rosalind Franklin to that scientific milestone. And now some ...