A 'strand' of DNA as never before Date: January 18, 2017 Source: Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences Summary: In a carefully designed polymer, researchers have ...

According to the authors, dynamic nanodevices powered by DNA strand displacement reactions could soon enable real-time computing, sensing and actuation inside biological systems-and usher in a new ...

This study reveals how SV40 helicase unwinds DNA, highlighting ATP hydrolysis's role in translocation and offering insights ...

He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...

To determine where DNA polymerase was and what it was doing, Xu and his colleagues combined two methods: confocal microscopy and optical tweezers. The team stretched an 8,000 kilobase strand of DNA ...

Not all DNA looks like the familiar twisted ladder. Sometimes, parts of our genetic code fold into unusual shapes. One such structure, the G-quadruplex (G4), looks like a knot. These knots can ...

Our DNA is usually shaped like a double helix. However, under certain conditions, a single strand of DNA can fold into a G-quadruplex (G4) structure, which looks like a knot ... “We were surprised to ...

The new method, published in Nature last week, is more efficient, storing 350 bits at a time by encoding strands in parallel. Rather than hand-threading each DNA strand, the team assembles strands ...