An international team of researchers co-led by Job Dekker, Ph.D., at UMass Chan Medical School, have identified rules that tell cells how to fold DNA into the tightly packed, iconic X-shaped ...

Biomolecular analysis shows that unusual book coverings are made of sealskin, hinting at far-flung trade networks.

A biomolecular engineering course has recently been redesigned to give students experience with the entire process of DNA ...

Before Watson and Crick basked in Nobel glory, before The Double Helix mythologized their genius, there was the photo. Photo ...

Bioinformaticians from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the university in Linköping (Sweden) have established ...

In a new paper published in the journal Trends in Genetics researchers from the University of Vermont and Trinity College ...

For the first time, researchers have filmed in real time the disassembly of DNA at the atomic scale. This strand separation ...

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A new study suggests that severe trauma, like that experienced in war, can leave epigenetic “scars” on DNA that endures for generations. In the early 1980s, the Syrian regime carried out a ...