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?

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. For ...

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

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 ...

The dark bands indicate areas where the structure of the chromosome is dense ... We've now zoomed in enough to see portions of the DNA strand. The DNA is wrapped around histones -- protein ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...