Scientists found that DNA’s phosphate groups can direct chemical reactions to make the correct mirror-image form of drug ...

Researchers explore a basic building block used in the fabrication of many DNA nanoforms. Known as a Holliday junction, this nexus of two segments of double stranded DNA has been used to form ...

Like its viral cousins, a somewhat parasitic DNA sequence called a retrotransposon has been found borrowing the cell's own machinery to achieve its goals. In a new work appearing online Wednesday in ...

DNA is the genetic material used by every living organism. But, in a few edge cases, the four bases of DNA—adenine, thymidine, cytosine, and guanine—undergo chemical modifications. And in viruses, ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Using DNA's unique lock-and-key mode of chemical bonding, a research team at the University of Minnesota is proposing a molecular-circuit assembly technique that they believe will be ...

Cesium chloride centrifugation of each of the DNAs extracted from eight strains of Crithidia revealed a main band at ρ = 1.717 g/ cm3 and a satellite band varying from ρ = 1.701 to 1.705 g/ cm3 for ...

Scientist helped break new ground in study of genetics, but later caused outcry with promotion of racist ideas.

Scientists have discovered that bacteria can reshape their DNA to survive dehydration. The research, published today in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society Interface, shows that bacterial DNA ...