What if your next hard drive wasn’t a box, but a string of molecules? Synthetic polymers promises to revolutionize data ...

Centromeres, specialized regions located at the center of chromosomes, are critical for ensuring proper cell division. During ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have addressed a longstanding challenge in CRISPR ...

Ingrida Domarkienė, a geneticist at Vilnius University in Lithuania, discusses the exciting developments made possible by studying ancient and modern DNA.

When the mechanisms that replicate or repair mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) fail ... defective polymerases that cannot stay on the mtDNA template, thus leaving the enzyme’s tasks incomplete.

Francis Crick attended Sanger's lectures, and in 1958, Crick published an argument that the sequence of nucleotides in a molecule of DNA was an essential template for the construction of amino ...

The Stratos team designed a molecule that is copied from DNA but ... sequencing reads that are 99.35% faithful to the original DNA template sequence. By sequencing both strands of a DNA duplex ...

They started with prefabricated DNA templates that served as a base onto ... a chemical reaction to add a methyl group, which is a molecule made from carbon and hydrogen, to some of these ...

DNA polymerization is a semi-conserved process that utilizes both strands of a double-stranded DNA molecule as a template for replication. RNA polymerase is an attractive target for drug development ...

Like other such methods, it leverages TdT, a template-independent polymerase ... exposing the end of the growing DNA molecule for the next addition cycle.” Ansa Biotechnologies’ enzymatic ...

One solution could be stabilizing the DNA origami structure by cross-linking or including rigidifying elements. The attachment points between the guest molecule and origami could be rigidified by ...

Before replication occurs, an enzyme called helicase unwinds the DNA molecule from its tightly ... two single strands of DNA that can be used as templates for replication. DNA polymerase adds ...