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

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

New imaging tools reveal how within an hour of infection, the virus begins to alter our chromosomes to kick-start its own replication.

The cold sore-causing Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV-1) hijacks human cells and reconfigures its DNA within just an hour after infection, according to a new study that may help tackle the pathogen.

But in a recent breakthrough, researchers have uncovered a surprisingly simple target in the herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1), the culprit behind cold sores. What they found, however, is much more than ...

The hypothesis suggests that life first took form due to self-replicating RNA, before the evolutionary arrival of DNA or even proteins ... This separated the RNA double-helix—the structure that makes ...

MSK researchers are shedding new light on G-quadruplexes, a type of secondary DNA structure that can cause DNA replication to stall. The structures are a potential therapeutic target in cancer. Image ...

Here, we reconstitute replication of physiologically derived structure‐forming sequences to find that a single G4 or iM arrest DNA replication. Direct single‐molecule structure detection within ...

Combining long-read DNA sequencing with a predictive artificial intelligence model has provided new insights into DNA replication.

DNA is perhaps the most famous molecule on earth. Here we explain what it is, what it does, and how it is crucial for health.

Researchers have demonstrated a programmable nano-scale robot, made from a few strands of DNA, that's capable of grabbing other snippets of DNA, and positioning them together to manufacture new UV ...

Technology DNA nanobots can exponentially self-replicate Tiny machines made from strands of DNA can build copies of themselves, leading to exponential replication.