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 ...

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

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

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 ...

University at Albany researchers at the RNA Institute are pioneering new methods for designing and assembling DNA ...

MSK researchers shed new light on G-quadruplexes, a type of secondary DNA structure that has attracted attention as a potential therapeutic target in cancer.

Assembling DNA nanostructures at more moderate temperatures opens up the possibility of using the structures in biomedical ...

Researchers at the RNA Institute at the University at Albany are pioneering new methods for designing and assembling DNA ...

By unveiling Pol-theta's DNA-bound structure -- its active state -- the study provides a blueprint for designing more effective cancer drugs. "We now have a much clearer picture of how Pol-theta ...

Bacteriophages, the most abundant life form on Earth, infect bacterial cells and influence the structure of the microbial ...