Cells have evolved careful checks to ensure DNA is copied only once, but how they switch on replication at the right moment ...

Scientists uncovered DNA's double helix structure in 1953. James Watson and Francis Crick proposed the model. It explained ...

The thermodynamics of DNA secondary structure formation is fundamental to understanding diverse biological processes, such as DNA replication 1 and repair 2. It also underlies many biotechnological ...

Computational chemists at the University of Amsterdam's Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences have developed a ...

Cohesin is a key regulator of three-dimensional genome organization, contributing to gene regulation, recombination, DNA repair and chromosome segregation. Like other members of the evolutionary ...

Before a cell can divide, it has to precisely duplicate its entire genetic information. However, the DNA in the cell exists as part of a DNA-protein complex known as chromatin. For this purpose, the ...

It’s tricky to make an exact copy of yourself. Or at least it is for cells undergoing mitosis, where cells replicate everything inside of them, including their neatly packaged DNA, then split in half.

A new artificial intelligence model can predict how different proteins may bind to DNA. A new artificial intelligence model developed by USC researchers and published in Nature Methods can predict how ...

For James Watson, DNA was everything — not just his life's work, but the secret of life itself. Over his long and storied career, Watson arguably did more than any other scientist to transform a ...