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 ...

Mitochondria are cell organelles surrounded by a double membrane. In addition to numerous essential functions in the ...

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 ...