Scientists have provided the most detailed account yet of the earliest stages of DNA replication, an essential process for ...

Ring-shaped extrachromosomal DNA is implicated in many cancers. Rachel Brazil talks to the scientists trying to uncover their ...

Visionary solutions using DNA sequencing have been hailed as the future of the storage world for a few years now. Biology ...

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Scientists at the University of Leicester have captured the first detailed “molecular movie” showing DNA being unzipped at ...

Sunburns and aging skin are obvious effects of exposure to harmful UV rays, tobacco smoke and other carcinogens. But the ...

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality of the natural ...

Two new landmark studies show how a seeming tangle of DNA is actually organized into ... published March 3 as two papers in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, could improve treatment for ...

Single-cell transcriptomics has revolutionized the study of cellular diversity and function by enabling gene expression ...

Imagine a world where we could predict the behavior of life just by analyzing a sequence of letters. This is not science ...

Dr Taha Shahid, from the University of Leicester's Institute of Structural and Chemical Biology ... molecular engine -- each piston "fires" in sequence, driving the machine forward along the DNA.

Researchers at Georgia State University used the Summit supercomputer to study an elaborate molecular pathway called ...