But James Watson and Francis Crick's claim was a valid one, for they had in fact discovered the structure of DNA, the chemical that encodes instructions for building and replicating almost all ...

DNA was largely accepted as the genetic molecule. Scientists still needed to figure out this molecule's structure to be sure, and to understand how it worked. In 1948, Linus Pauling discovered ...

Researchers utilized recently published telomere-to-telomere genomes of humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and two ...

Crick and Watson were trying to build a 3D model of the DNA molecule. But they were not the only ones working on finding its structure. They were competing with a team at King's College London ...

A study has found that an ancient protein motif that binds to nucleic acids is functionally "ambidextrous." This means that ...

By creating a more true-to-life representation of DNA's environment, researchers have discovered that strand separation may take more mechanical force than the field previously believed.

A University of Iowa-led study has revealed the unexpected structure adopted by ... were also able to monitor the RAD52-DNA transactions at the single-molecule level, revealing that the fork ...

Historically, small molecule drugs have been precisely designed down to the atomic scale. Considering their relatively large complex structures, nanomedicines have lagged behind. Researchers argue ...

After one DNA molecule was trapped on the surface treated by APTES, the DNA molecule was stretched by pressure flow and ...

laid the foundation for our understanding of DNA and RNA structure. Cytosine can be synthesized chemically or isolated from natural sources for research and industrial purposes. Chemical synthesis ...

Controlling the topology and structure of entangled molecular strands is a key challenge in molecular engineering, ...

A significant advancement in molecular engineering has produced a large, hollow spherical shell nanostructure through the self-assembly of peptides and metal ions, report researchers from Japan. This ...