DNA is more than just the iconic double helix we learned in school—it's a dynamic, complex structure at the heart of life. From high-speed replication to advanced sequencing technologies, scientists ...

From the elegant spirals of the double helix to the bustling activity at replication forks, your DNA is constantly at work — and under threat. Scientists are uncovering how it copies itself with ...

Shixin Liu is pioneering new ways of studying the tiny proteins that copy and read DNA in living cells. (Credit: Roshni Khatri) Inside every cell of ...

Roizman reshaped the field of virology through his work on the herpes simplex virus, laying the groundwork for efforts to ...

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

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 review in Quantitative Biology demonstrates that scientists can now reliably build and combine very large pieces of DNA, ...