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

Each time a cell divides, a small section of each chromosome's protective cap—the telomere—is worn away. Most cells use an ...

Franklin W. Stahl, an American molecular biologist whose landmark 1957-58 experiment with colleague Matthew Meselson revealed ...

The combination of affinity purification and mass spectrometry (AP–MS) has recently been applied to the detailed characterization of protein complexes and large protein-interaction networks ...

A paper in Molecular Cell reports the characterization of a second functional light strand promoter (LSP2) in the mitochondrial genome, challenging the view that mitochondrial DNA replication and ...