The fixed idea that DNA is only a molecule that stores genetic information is being challenged. KAIST researchers have ...

Researchers have found that the DNA spools inside human cells are far less tightly wound than textbooks have long suggested.

DNA is the blueprint of the human body. However, tens of thousands of DNA lesions occur in our bodies every day. In ...

The authors used a combination of super-resolution imaging techniques and liquid pressure flow to fine-tune the stretch ratio of a DNA molecule, improving the lateral resolution of side-by-side ...

Scientists have developed a new way to improve the reliability of DNA origami for future biomedical, agritech and other ...

The newest DNA sequencing technology from Swiss multinational Roche doesn’t measure DNA directly but in fact analyzes a different polymer altogether. The technology is not yet available for sale, but ...

In a way, sequencing DNA is very simple: There's a molecule, you look at it, and you write down what you find. You'd think it would be easy—and, for any one letter in the sequence, it is. The problem ...

DNA sits in sunlight every day, absorbing ultraviolet radiation that can set off the kind of chemical changes linked to ...

In 1869, a Swiss physician-cum-biochemist while checking pus-filled surgical bandages made this remarkable discovery ...

Thanks to effective therapies, more and more people are now able to live with or after cancer in the long term. Consequently, ...

James D. Watson, whose role as co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953 made him one of the key figures in the rise of molecular biology as well as the obvious choice to be first ...

Schematic showing a single DNA duplex bridging two gold electrodes (yellow) patterned on a silicon nitride substrate (green). The setup allows measurement of electrical conductance as metal ions bind ...