A newly mapped step in DNA replication suggests that strand separation begins at a precise junction between two helicase ...

For decades, scientists have largely relied on painstaking trial and error to coax proteins into crystalline forms.

For decades, scientists have largely relied on painstaking trial and error to coax proteins into crystalline forms.

Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) and collaborators have uncovered one of the earliest steps in DNA replication: the moment a cell first opens its DNA to begin making a copy ...

This breakthrough transforms the building of synthetic DNA from a chemical process to an electrical one.

(Alones Creative/iStock/Getty Images) One of the most iconic visual representations in biological science is the double helix ...

So, figuring out how to make a new protein can mean directly tinkering with biochemistry, providing new and potentially ...

Inspired by long-lived animals — and human centenarians — researchers are hunting for ways to enhance DNA repair and extend ...

Cancer cells rely on powerful genetic switches to keep growth genes running at full speed, but that intense activity can damage their own DNA. The resulting breaks are repeatedly repaired, sometimes ...

Every cell in the human body carries the same 3 billion letters of DNA, yet a neuron, a heart muscle cell and a pancreatic beta cell each use that shared code to do entirely different jobs. How cells ...

Malaria parasites proliferate in an unusual way. Rather than dividing into two daughter cells like human cells, they first amplify their genetic material tenfold, hundredfold or even thousandfold ...

Prosecutors and defense lawyers are arguing over who can test reserve DNA evidence first before Alex Murdaugh’s double murder ...