By creating a more true-to-life representation of DNA's environment, researchers at Northwestern University have discovered ...

One especially severe form of damage called a double-strand break involves the severing of both strands of the DNA double helix. Double-strand breaks are among the most difficult forms of DNA damage ...

Two historians argue that while DNA double helix discoverers James Watson and Francis Crick relied on research from Rosalind Franklin, Franklin was more a collaborator than victim.

The most famous image to emerge from 20th-century biology is the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) double helix, illustrating the structure of the gene, life’s genetic material. Credit for the ...

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

The whole process of DNA replication, in human cells, takes about eight hours. There is still plenty to be worked out. For one thing, the DNA that’s being copied is not a naked double helix.

A still image from a three-dimensional video rendering shows a key protein involved in DNA repair in many organisms. Here, ...

Scientists studied how a DNA double helix unzips when translocated at high velocity through a nanopore, reconstructing fundamental DNA thermodynamic properties from the sole speed of the process.

For DNA Day, and to mark the 70th year since the discovery of DNA’s structure, GEN talks with Matthew Cobb on Franklin, Crick, and more.

Now, collaborating with Jim Watson, who had returned from Cambridge, I was taken with a challenge put forth in his famed double-helix manuscript. 1 In their 1953 publication on the DNA double helix, ...

That is, American biologist James Watson and English physicist Francis Crick, who in the early 1950s helped revolutionize science by describing the double-helix structure of DNA.