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?

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

Instead of just stacking blocks to clear lines, players arrange falling pieces labeled with DNA bases (A, T, C, G) and a special Methylation (M) piece. The goal is to create complementary base pairs ...

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 ...

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

Researchers shed new light on G-quadruplexes, a type of secondary DNA structure that has attracted attention as a potential therapeutic target in cancer.

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

Imagine a world where we could predict the behavior of life just by analyzing a sequence of letters. This is not science ...

The basic repeating structural (and functional) unit of chromatin is the nucleosome, which contains eight histone proteins and about 146 base pairs of DNA (Van Holde, 1988; Wolffe, 1999).