Lipid membranes, which form the outer layer of cells, can be engineered to influence cellular functions. For example, ...

Researchers have revealed the fundamental mechanisms underlying homologous recombination – one of the main DNA repair pathways in human cells.

For years, the dominant narrative held that modern humans arose from a single, unbroken lineage in Africa. But then came ...

Scientists have identified sequences in great apes' DNA capable of forming unconventional structures called non-B DNA. These ...

A study by researchers at the Interuniversity Institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels, the Structural Biology research group at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and IBiTech–BioMMedA Group of Ghent ...

Researchers have identified how variations in a gene called TRIO can influence brain functions and result in distinct ...

Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, and Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Science, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190 ...

The assembly, structure, and stability of DNA nanocages with the shape of truncated octahedra have been studied. The cages are composed of 12 double-stranded B-DNA helices interrupted by ...