An article by UAB professor Joan-Ramon Daban analyzes in depth the physical problems associated with DNA packaging that have ...

In the middle of the 20th century, accumulating data suggested that DNA carries life’s genetic information. Biochemists around the world raced to determine its structure. The competition led to ...

Despite her contribution to the discovery of DNA's helical structure, Rosalind Franklin was not named a prize winner: She had died of cancer four years earlier, at the age of 37.

Exactly 66 years ago, on April 25, 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson published their famous article that showed that the shape of DNA is a double helix. They weren’t able to see DNA directly ...

Since the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA nearly 70 years ago, scientists have worked to understand how the two strands of DNA are opened to access the genetic information they ...

In DNA discovery lore, it was Photograph 51—taken in May 1952—that revealed so much about DNA’s helical structure. Four decades later, ...

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?

James Watson and Francis Crick proposed that DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) was a double-helix structure, not a triple stranded structure as had been previously hypothesized, on April 2, 1953. The ...

He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...

Switchback DNA has only two strands, so it can be directly compared with the double helical structure of DNA that everyone is familiar with. In switchback DNA, ...

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.