This letter sure has dominant genes — a 1953 missive from the co-discoverer of DNA’s structure to his 12-year-old son explaining how “life comes from life’’ was auctioned for a record ...

"In the knot structure, C letters on the same strand of DNA bind to each other," said research co-lead Marcel Dinger in the statement.

Updated 2:37 p.m. ET Nine boxes of previously unknown letters, postcards and other correspondence from Francis Crick, one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA, have been unearthed in the ...

A new cache of letters released 50 years after Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick and James Watson won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of DNA's structure reveals that not everyone agreed on which ...

Conventional DNA is comprised of the familiar A, C, G, and T base pairs, but a newly created genetic system is packed with eight, thus doubling the number of letters normally found in self ...

Scientists hope that new genetic letters, created in the lab, will endow DNA with new powers.

"In the knot structure, C letters on the same strand of DNA bind to each other – so this is very different from a double helix, where 'letters' on opposite strands recognize each other, and ...

"In the knot structure, C letters on the same strand of DNA bind to each other -- so this is very different from a double helix, where 'letters' on opposite strands recognise each other, and where ...

Shankar Balasubramanian is thinking beyond DNA’s four-letter code Coinventor of next-generation sequencing has widened his focus to DNA’s large-scale structures and molecular modifications ...

In addition, the DNA strands must be able to twist into the same three-dimensional structure — the famed double-helix. The team created three crystal structures of Hachimoji DNA, each with different ...

A new cache of letters released 50 years after Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick and James Watson won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of DNA's structure reveals that not everyone agreed on which ...

The nomination letters for the Nobel Prize for the discovery of DNA structure are unsealed after 50 years.