From 'Why a double helix?', 'What are 5′ and 3′?', to 'Why can it replicate?'—DNAis a molecule that stores information in the ...

DNA is a double helix.”This is a fact so famous that it now appears in middle and high school textbooks. However, when you learn the details of how this shape was discovered, you realize it is not a ...

Two new studies from Johns Hopkins University are providing scientists with an unprecedented view of how human cells repair ...

Researchers have developed fluorescent molecules that permit imaging of how DNA is packaged inside living cells at unprecedented resolution and, in preserved cells, at a resolution close to the width ...

A virus-built molecular weapon targets DNA with a strange gapped code and may reveal how bacteria acquired the foundations of CRISPR immunity.

(Jonathan Knowles/Stone/Getty Images) If you think you know what DNA looks like, there may be a surprise hiding in your blood ...

A fault in one of the body’s most important DNA repair genes may be quietly steering the course of several devastating blood ...

Basecamp Research Ltd. today announced that it has raised $140 million in funding from a group of prominent investors.

Macrolide antibiotics such as azithromycin have long been the cornerstone of treatment for Mycoplasma pneumoniae, a leading ...

Approach builds on prime editing, advances journey toward universal gene therapies ...

Scientists have found unusual four-stranded DNA shapes in human blood plasma. These G-quadruplex structures suggest hidden ...

Researchers developed fluorescent dyes that reveal DNA packing in living cells and could help scientists study changes linked to cancer.