Image based on an x-ray crystal structure of a G-quadruplex formed from the DNA sequence found in human genomes. Sixty years after scientists described the chemical code of life — an ...

The promise of genome editing to help understand human diseases and create new therapies is vast, but technological ...

Researchers at Northwestern University found that DNA strand separation may require more force than previously thought when ...

Researchers have revealed the structural mechanisms of a major DNA repair pathway in human cells ... It is essential for repairing double-stranded breaks in DNA and for DNA crossover events ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Your DNA is continually damaged by sources both inside and outside your body. One especially severe form of damage called a double-strand break involves the severing of both strands ...

The DNA of human cells consists of a sequence of about 3.1 billion building blocks ... They constantly untangle knots in the DNA strand and create new chemical bonds when a strand of DNA breaks ...

The DNA of human cells consists of a sequence of about 3.1 billion building blocks. Cells go to great lengths to maintain the integrity of this vast store of information. They constantly untangle ...

Researchers mapped the organization of human retinal cell chromatin, the fibers that package 3 billion nucleotide ... even when their location on a DNA strand is remote from the genes they regulate.

Researchers have mapped 50,000 of DNA's mysterious "knots" in the human genome ... when stretches of cytosine letters on the same DNA strand pair with each other, creating a four-stranded ...