These letters represent the nucleotides that make up the ladder part of a DNA strand. Using this sequence, scientist are able to make a DNA strand in a lab. “There are now companies where you ...

Captured by English chemist Rosalind Franklin in 1952, Photo 51 is a fuzzy X -ray depicting a strand of DNA extracted from human calf tissue — the clearest shot of life's building blocks ever ...

A new study in Nature Plants reveals that DNA double-strand break repair (DSBR) pathways help prevent gene transfer from ...

Scientists have captured the highest-resolution images ever taken of DNA ... For the study, the researchers analyzed DNA minicircles, in which a small strand is joined at both ends, forming ...

The resulting images are incredible ... and used these fragments to form duplexes with a much longer DNA strand attached to the surface. Different colors are made by mixing the red, green and ...

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 ...

Figure 1: Synthesis of a modified DNA sequence tethering an azobenzene ... to the terminus of each strand.