Because enzymes are little molecular machines, heat cycling is enough to get them to do the work of DNA replication. The process is called the DNA polymerase chain reaction (PCR). (If it sounds ...

Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington discovered how the flowerpot snake, with three sets of chromosomes, can ...

Scientists have provided the most detailed account yet of the earliest stages of DNA replication, an essential process for ...

While scientists have long known the importance of helicase in DNA replication, "they did not know how DNA, helicases and ATP work together in a coordinated cycle to drive DNA unwinding," De ...

For the first time, researchers have filmed in real time the disassembly of DNA at the atomic scale. This strand separation ...

Scientists at the University of Leicester have captured the first detailed “molecular movie” showing DNA being unzipped at the atomic level – revealing how cells begin the crucial process of copying ...

Using cutting-edge cryo-electron microscopy, scientists at the University of Leicester have captured the first detailed “molecular movie” showing DNA being unzipped at the atomic level. The movie ...

"We've known that G4s are associated with genomic instability -- and now our study provides a much clearer understanding of how they work ... DNA structures can pose physical barriers to DNA ...

MSK researchers are shedding new light on G-quadruplexes, a type of secondary DNA structure that can cause DNA replication to stall. The structures are a potential ... instability — and now our study ...

discovering that two helicase machines work together at specific DNA sites, establishing "replication forks" that allow efficient copying of both strands simultaneously." The research was an ...