An unusual DNA structure may hold the key to treating one of the deadliest cancers affecting women, which claims more than ...

A still image from a three-dimensional video rendering shows a key protein involved in DNA repair in many organisms. Here, ...

Helix Parallelism’ can process millions of words and support 32x more concurrent users. It’s a breakthrough, but is it useful ...

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

Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian, from Cambridge, has won the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Khorana Prize in recognition of brilliance in research and innovation.

The human genetic code will be built from scratch by British scientists in a controversial new research project. The £10 million scheme to synthesise DNA is being funded by the Wellcome Trust and ...

New research predicts the location of DNA sequences that can form structures besides the canonical double helix — non-B DNA — in the recently released telomere-to-telomere genomes of the great ...

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 (left) and Francis Crick (right) report in Nature the discovery of the double-helix structure of the DNA molecule. Papers from Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, which appear ...

New research shows how SMC proteins make long loops in our DNA and also put twists into the loops as they form, helping to shape the double helix.

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 ...

Our findings also demonstrate that the rules of complementarity that Watson and Crick defined in their iconic double-helical model of DNA structure need to be expanded.