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 ...

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.

For example, compensatory evolution to constitutive replication stress, an intracellular perturbation that challenges the faithful replication of the genome, was reported to reproducibly depend on ...

Predictive models are beneficial tools for researchers to use in prioritizing nanoparticles (NPs) for toxicological tests, but experimental evaluation can be time-consuming and expensive, and thus, ...

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 ...

Health officials take DNA samples from family members of the victims who died when an Air India plane bound for London's Gatwick Airport crashed shortly after take-off from Ahmedabad, India on ...