From the first unzip of the double helix to the final joining of DNA fragments, replication is a carefully coordinated process. Understanding it helps explain how life preserves its genetic code with ...

From Mendel’s pea plants to the molecular magic of DNA replication, genetics is the story of how life’s blueprint is copied and passed on. Understanding how DNA stores, duplicates, and sometimes ...

Over a century ago, a botanist named Daniel Trembly MacDougal injected salt solutions into plant ovaries and reported that the procedure changed the hereditary material passed on to offspring. Both ...

Robot swarms are systems composed of many simple robots that coordinate without central control. Soon, they could be ...

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed a new imaging method, known as RF-SIRF, that ...

Ming, Professor of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE) at The Hong Kong University of Science and ...

A routine experiment with a new single-cell DNA sequencing method turned into a surprising scientific twist when researchers ...

Loss of an enzyme necessary for a process called lipoylation disrupts the way cancer cells copy their DNA, increasing their ...

A subtle failure during cell division can set off dramatically different outcomes, according to new research exploring whole genome duplication. A new study finds that the way a cell fails to divide ...

DNA repair is essential for the maintenance of genomic stability and its failure can lead to human disease. Various DNA repair systems exist, such as base excision repair, nucleotide excision repair, ...

On 25 April 1953, Watson and Crick published an article, in the acclaimed journal “Nature” titled “Molecular structure of nucleic acids: A structure for deoxyribonucleic acid”. The one-page article ...