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?

When we see pictures of chromosomes ... We've now zoomed in enough to see portions of the DNA strand. The DNA is wrapped around histones -- protein structures that are sometimes depicted as ...

This means that one strand's sugar-phosphate chain runs in ... used a process called X-ray diffraction to capture images of DNA molecules (Figure 5). Although the black lines in these photos ...

For the first time, scientists have witnessed the very moment DNA begins to unravel, revealing a necessary molecular event ...

The King's team took an experimental approach, looking particularly at x-ray diffraction images of DNA ... Watson and Crick showed that each strand of the DNA molecule was a template for the ...