Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed a new imaging method, known as RF-SIRF, that ...

A system once tied to DNA organization in cyanobacteria has evolved into a structure that shapes the cell itself. This shift ...

Scientists have captured the most detailed structural images to date of a specific type of protein's DNA repair process, a ...

CRISPR functions as a programmable genetic memory system derived from bacterial immune defenses against viral infections. Guide RNA allows for rapid multiplexed targeting compared to older ...

According to the RNA world hypothesis, life began when RNA molecules evolved the ability to make more copies of themselves. Now we have discovered an RNA molecule that is almost capable of this – it ...

Researchers in Shenzhen, China, have built a “cassette tape” that stores digital data as DNA strands on a thin plastic tape. A single prototype holds 36 petabytes, which is about one million gigabytes ...

A new study reveals how cells activate an emergency DNA repair system when their usual defenses fail, especially under the stress of tangled RNA–DNA structures called R-loops. Credit: Stock Scripps ...

The authors attempt to use sequencing of nascent DNA (DNA linked to an RNA primer, "SNS-Seq") to localise DNA replication origins in Trypanosoma brucei, but they analyse the results for only part of ...

DNA is packaged inside cells with the double helix tightly coiled around histone proteins (yellow) that form nucleosomes. These are then coiled together and further packaged into chromosomes (far ...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Watson's former employer, confirmed the American scientist's death on Nov. 7 Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer-Reporter for PEOPLE. DANIEL MORDZINSKI/AFP via ...

Molecular Biologist Dr. James Watson attends the 10th Anniversary Sing For Hope Gala at Tribeca Rooftop on October 24, 2016 in New York City. Editor at Large There’s no telling how the history of ...