Come take a stroll along one of London’s most charming riverside paths. Strand-on-the-Green, opposite Kew, is ridiculously ...

Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian, from Cambridge, has won the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Khorana Prize in recognition of brilliance in research and innovation.

One especially severe form of damage called a double-strand break involves the severing of both strands of the DNA double helix. Double-strand breaks are among the most difficult forms of DNA damage ...

Researchers discovered a previously unknown function of RNA, potentially opening the door to new ways to treat cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.

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?

RNA molecules are short-lived and fragile, constantly under threat from enzymes that degrade them. Unlike the more stable double-stranded DNA, RNA barely lasts even in the cells that make it. Yet, it ...

When DNA is cross-linked, the "nucleotides" (the "steps" in the double-helix ladder of DNA) of the two strands become stuck together, preventing this unzipping.

The results have revealed that the one-electron oxidation potential decreases with respect to the single-stranded DNA, giving evidence that the greater rigidity of a double helix induces an increase ...

We have demonstrated that nanopore transport of double-stranded nucleic acids is influenced by the molecular structure of the duplex molecules, with RD (RNA:DNA) duplexes translocating faster than ...

Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have been studying DNA repair by homologous recombination, where the RecA protein repairs breaks in double-stranded DNA by ...

Hoogsteen interactions allow the formation of a triple-helical DNA structure, known as a triplex. This structure is formed when purine bases simultaneously pair using both their Watson–Crick and ...