For the first time, scientists have witnessed the very moment DNA begins to unravel, revealing a necessary molecular event for DNA to be the molecule that codes all life. A new study from King ...

Unlike nuclear DNA, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is circular in nature and organized as mitochondrial nucleoids comprised of DNA-protein complexes that are distributed in the matrix. It is also inherited ...

This protocol is an extension to: Nat. Protoc. 6, 870–895 (2014); doi:10.1038/nprot.2011.328; published online 02 June 2011 Cycling cells duplicate their DNA ...

A protein that is involved in determining which enzymes cut or unwind DNA during the replication process has been identified. A protein that is involved in determining which enzymes cut or unwind DNA ...

Fruit flies make for stingy mothers, imparting only a portion of the genetic building blocks their offspring need to survive. The rest must be produced by the fertilized egg in its first few steps of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In eucaryotic cells chromosomes must be fully replicated and repaired before mitosis begins. Genetic studies indicate that this dependence of ...