Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have shown that DNA inflexibility, or rigidity, inside the ...

For decades, biologists treated DNA as a static string of letters, a linear code that cells read like text on a page. A new ...

As imaging tools continue to get more sophisticated, researchers have been able to actually watch biological processes as they are happening in live cells. Scientists have now visualized loops of DNA ...

MSK researchers are shedding new light on G-quadruplexes, a type of secondary DNA structure that can cause DNA replication to stall. The structures are a potential therapeutic target in cancer. Image ...

In the middle of the 20th century, accumulating data suggested that DNA carries life’s genetic information. Biochemists around the world raced to determine its structure. The competition led to some ...

Over the past decades, a growing number of robotics teams have started developing modular robots inspired by the ancient ...

James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist remarks that made him an outcast.

The Nobel Prize winner felt ostracised by the scientific community over his comments on race and intelligence.

A new study published in Nature on November 26 has shed light on the origins, population structures, and kinship systems of ...