For decades, biologists treated DNA as a static string of letters, a linear code that cells read like text on a page. A new ...

The world of crime and DNA has evolved significantly over the past decade, including the use of phenotyping to help solve ...

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have performed a comprehensive evaluation of five artificial ...

DNA is often likened to a blueprint. The particular sequence of As, Cs, Gs, and Ts in DNA provides information for building an organism. What’s not captured by this analogy is the fact that our DNA ...

DNA contains foundational information needed to sustain life. Understanding how this information is stored and organized has been one of the greatest scientific challenges of the last century. With ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have been studying DNA repair by homologous recombination, where the RecA protein repairs breaks in double-stranded DNA by incorporating ...

With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to ...

Meiotic recombination generates genetic diversity and promotes proper chromosomal segregation of parental chromosomes. This process requires a set of recombinases polymerized on single-stranded (ss) ...