Without the scientific foundation provided by these pioneers, Watson and Crick may never have reached their groundbreaking conclusion of 1953: that the DNA molecule exists in the form of a three ...

Punishing conditions in the clouds of Venus could be home to a DNA-like molecule capable of forming genes in life very ...

Researchers utilized recently published telomere-to-telomere genomes of humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and two ...

A study has found that an ancient protein motif that binds to nucleic acids is functionally "ambidextrous." This means that ...

The work is published in the journal Ecology and Evolution. DNA is the molecule that carries the instructions for life. Think ...

For a long time, Venus has been considered too hostile for life as we know it. Its thick clouds are filled with droplets of ...

Molecules like DNA are capable of storing large amounts of data without requiring an energy source, but accessing this molecular data is expensive and time consuming. Researchers have now developed an ...

Vaccines using mRNA are currently being studied for a wide range of diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, ...

By creating a more true-to-life representation of DNA's environment, researchers at Northwestern University have discovered that strand separation - the essential process a "resting" double helix ...