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?

Scientists have provided the most detailed account yet of the earliest stages of DNA replication, an essential process for ...

The ability of DNA to store and replicate information stems from its unique double-helix structure. One can imagine it as an elongated, twisted ladder, where each rung represents a unit of genetic ...

Feedback, a Lego fan, delves into a new science-related set, and learns that the model of a DNA double helix is the wrong way ...

DNA is a linear biopolymer, a compound biomolecule in the form of a double helix. Polymers are made of monomers, and in DNA, these monomers are called nucleotides or nucleobases. The enzymes that ...

Scientists at the University of Leicester have captured the first detailed “molecular movie” showing DNA being unzipped at ...

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.

For the first time, scientists have witnessed the very moment DNA begins to unravel, revealing a necessary molecular event for DNA to be the molecule that codes all life.

Biology lectures teach students that when a cell’s replication machinery comes together, DNA polymerase takes off down the double-helix like a car on a highway ...