He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...

Franklin W. Stahl, an American molecular biologist whose landmark 1957-58 experiment with colleague Matthew Meselson revealed ...

The being in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum mirabile. Preliminary research says it stretches the definition of ...

Infomercial channels are riddled with the next-best hair-loss solution, but those toupees, ointments, and hair plugs might ...

Intriguingly and unexpectedly, the Aca protein we investigated does both—even though its structure would suggest it ... especially as the phage replicates its DNA in the bacterial cell. This ...

Imagine if you could "print" a tiny skyscraper using DNA instead of steel. That’s what researchers at Columbia and Brookhaven ...

When the Empire State Building was constructed, its 102 stories rose above midtown one piece at a time, with each individual ...

In biology textbooks and beyond, the human genome and DNA therein typically are taught in only one dimension. While it can be ...

If measured from beginning to end, the DNA in our cells is too long to fit into the cell’s nucleus, explaining why it must be ...

DNA damage response articles from across Nature Portfolio The DNA damage response is a network of cellular pathways that sense, signal and repair DNA lesions. Surveillance proteins that monitor ...

This important study introduces a Bayesian method to determine bacterial counts that accounts for the experimental noise inherent to dilution and plating methods, and distinguishes it from biological ...

Our cells' identity is shaped by DNA tags called methylation. New tech, scDEEP-mC, maps these tags in single cells with ...