It's a technology that doesn't even exist yet, but its effects could be so drastically destructive that scientists in the ...

Unexpected slowdowns or spikes in this signal were often interpreted as knots in DNA. But now, a new study published Aug. 12 ...

DNA’s chemical cousin, RNA, was the messenger that carries DNA instructions from the double helix in the cell’s nucleus to ...

At school, it's often presented as a tidy double helix but scientists are revealing the varied and intricate shapes of DNA molecules.

At school, it’s often presented as a tidy double helix but scientists are revealing the varied and intricate shapes of DNA ...

Artist's impression of the DNA double helix structure. We are increasingly learning that these DNA strands can be unzipped to form new structures, affecting which genes are turned on and off in a ...

The DNA double helix must first be unwound by specialized enzymes known as helicases. These enzymes create a replication fork, allowing access to the DNA strands.

Researchers have controlled the evolution of E. coli bacteria in the lab in order to dramatically increase the amount of ...

By creating a more true-to-life representation of DNA's environment, researchers at Northwestern University have discovered that strand separation -- the essential process a "resting" double helix ...

New research predicts the location of DNA sequences that can form structures besides the canonical double helix — non-B DNA — in the recently released telomere-to-telomere genomes of the great ...