The sequence, structure and folding properties of DNA are being exploited in innovative ways, thereby expanding the uses of DNA beyond its natural calling. This article examines those applications ...

The scientists analyzed the structure of the connector – the core of the phi29 DNA packaging motor – to a resolution of 3.2 angstroms, or 3.2 hundred-millionths of a centimeter. Their findings show ...

The discovery of DNA structure by James Watson and Francis Crick in the year 1953 is one of the most revolutionary scientific discoveries to date. However, the research leading to the discovery of ...

DNA-responsive hydrogels have brought a whole new level of specificity to hydrogel responsivity, but so far this has come at the cost of the hydrogel’s versatility. Each time researchers want a ...

In the world of viral research, uncovering a virus’s weaknesses is often a painstaking process that requires years of ...

Rosalind Franklin was excluded from the Nobel Prize that was awarded for the discovery of DNA's structure. ... Previously no one could figure out how a simple molecule like DNA could carry large ...

Structure: DNA consists of two strands, arranged in a double helix. These strands are made up of subunits called nucleotides. Each nucleotide contains a phosphate, a 5-carbon sugar molecule and a ...

James Watson and Francis Crick revealed the structure of DNA — the genetic instructions in all living things — 70 years ago in the journal Nature. Watson and Crick could not have succeeded ...