A team of researchers has used advanced DNA sequencing to develop the most comprehensive atlas yet of genetic change through ...

At the end of their experiment, RISE Elementary students were pulling out a gooey, stringy substance from their strawberry mush. “That’s not a booger, that’s DNA,” Joseph Williams told the students.

The way DNA folds inside the nucleus of brain cells may hold the key to understanding a devastating form of brain cancer ...

DNA can be cut up and separated, which can form a 'bar code' that is different from one person to the next. The basic units (monomers) of DNA are nucleotides. These nucleotides consist of a ...

so histones bind with DNA very tightly. The basic repeating structural (and functional) unit of chromatin is the nucleosome, which contains eight histone proteins and about 146 base pairs of DNA ...

Rebecca Roberts is a science writer and communicator. She earned her PhD in molecular biology from the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia and completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at ...

We are interested in homologous recombination not only because of the intellectual challenges it presents, but also on the insights it may bring to the mechanism of the repair of double strand breaks ...

So how does protein synthesis make hair? If you've looked at the activity (or even the text version of the activity), you know how a section of DNA instructs a cell how to make a protein.

Histones are a family of basic proteins that associate with DNA in the nucleus and help condense it into chromatin. Nuclear DNA does not appear in free linear strands; it is highly condensed and ...

Knowing how human DNA changes over generations is essential to estimating genetic disease risks and understanding how we ...