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?

Comparison of a single-stranded RNA and a double-stranded DNA with their corresponding nucleobases. (Image: Wikimedia Commons, CC SA 3.0) The most common type of base pairing is the Watson-Crick base ...

Erwin Chargaff's groundbreaking research, which showed that DNA base pairs had a complementary relationship, laid the foundation for James Watson's and Francis Crick's DNA model. When word spread that ...

Ring-shaped extrachromosomal DNA is implicated in many cancers. Rachel Brazil talks to the scientists trying to uncover their ...

Every day, billions of cells in your body divide, helping to replace old and injured cells with new ones. And each time this ...

A DNA sequence is a specific lineup of chemical base pairs along its strand. The part of DNA that determines what protein to produce and when, is called a gene. First established in 1985 by Sir ...

DNA is the molecular basis of heredity, the inherited traits that pass between generations in a person's family tree. Embodied in the sequence of base pairs, DNA carries information between ...

Assembling DNA nanostructures at more moderate temperatures opens up the possibility of using the structures in biomedical ...

The highly specific nucleotide interaction following the Watson-Crick base pairing rule, as well as the chemically tunable groups present in DNA, makes it possible to encode both structural and ...

Researchers at the RNA Institute at the University at Albany are pioneering new methods for designing and assembling DNA ...

“In the case of cattle, that’s about 3 billion base pairs of DNA that make up the cattle genome.” Conventional breeding ...