Scientists have created an artificial RNA system that can copy itself using simple building blocks and temperature changes.

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have reconciled two closely related but contentious mechanisms underlying ...

Congress members need to stop blaming each other and start building strong relationships across the aisle and working on ...

The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.

In 1968 James Watson published The Double Helix, his highly personalized and controversial account of the events. It ...

It follows a previous report showing that the Werner syndrome protein WRN and its interacting protein WRNIP1 are indispensable for translesion DNA synthesis (TLS) by Y-family DNA polymerases (Pols).

Skoltech researchers have enlisted generative artificial intelligence to complete the missing data on the distances between pairs of genes in DNA. This enables figuring out the 3D architecture of ...

At some point, RNA must have replicated itself before the evolutionary arrival of DNA and proteins, and now we might know how.

Scientists assign the letters A, T, C, and G to “bases,” which are part of the structure of DNA. Strings of these letters make up your complex genetic code.

Enhancing Drug Development With DNA Dynamics DNA, consisting of an equivalent of 3 billion English letters in each human cell, acts as a blueprint for growth and function. Transcription factors bind ...

The team also found that this change in DNA structure was mediated by a targeted enzyme, designed to unwind the DNA and allow new bonds to form between the letters that make up our genetic code.