For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...

DNA replication is a fundamental process essential for bacterial growth and survival. Initiation begins at the chromosomal origin (oriC), where the conserved initiator protein DnaA assembles into an ...

A new study shows, for the first time, how the human genome folds and moves in 3D over time to control when genes turn on and ...

What scientists long believed were knots in DNA may actually be persistent twists formed during nanopore analysis, revealing ...

Researchers have discovered how cells activate a last-resort DNA repair system when severe damage strikes. When genetic ...

Deep in coastal mangroves and even inside our own mouths, biologists are finding that DNA does not always sit in a simple loop at the cell’s center. A giant microbe called Thiovulum imperiosus has now ...

A team of researchers has generated one of the most detailed 3D maps of human chromosomes, cataloging over 140,000 DNA looping interactions.

One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published ...

Alcohol consumption leads to the formation of a toxic compound called acetaldehyde, which damages DNA. A research team from IOCB Prague has now described in detail how cells repair this damaged ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

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 ...