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?

Scientists at EMBL have captured how human chromosomes fold into their signature rod shape during cell division, using a ...

Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves. For ...

This means that one strand's sugar-phosphate chain runs in ... Crick were pursuing a definitive model for the stable structure of DNA inside cell nuclei. Watson and Crick ultimately used ...

Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves.

During cell division the two strands separate and on each strand a new "other half" is built, just like the one before. This way DNA can reproduce itself without changing its structure -- except ...

For the first time, scientists have captured the exact moment DNA begins to unravel, shedding light on a fundamental chemical process that enables DNA to serve as the blueprint for life. A recent ...

For successful cell division, chromosomal DNA needs to be packed into compact rod-shaped structures. Defects in this process ...

To maintain its orderly structure, single rings on one strand can only bond with double rings on the other. This keeps the DNA molecule in the form of a ribbon of consistent width. Credit ...

a similar approach to making biosensors was developed using a single DNA strand rather than a DNA origami structure. That earlier work was led by Kevin W. Plaxco (PhD '94) of UC Santa Barbara ...