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 ...

For the first time, researchers have filmed in real time the disassembly of DNA at the atomic scale. This strand separation ...

In its structure, DNA contains a pattern for producing amino acids, proteins, lipids, sugars, and every other biomolecule an organism makes. The parts of a DNA molecule that have these ...

Daban, in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the UAB ... introduced in the monotonous linear structure ...

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 ...

According to this rule, the amount of adenine is equal to the amount of thymine, and the amount of guanine is equal to the amount of cytosine in a double-stranded DNA molecule. This 1:1 ratio of A:T ...

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

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