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

Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian, from Cambridge, has won the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Khorana Prize in recognition ...

In 1968 James Watson published The Double Helix, his highly personalized and controversial account of the events. It ...

Synthetic Human Genome (SynHG) project sparks fears that rogue scientists could create enhanced ‘super humans’ in decades to come ...

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 ...

Researchers discovered a previously unknown function of RNA, potentially opening the door to new ways to treat cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.

Your DNA is continually damaged by sources both inside and outside your body. One especially severe form of damage called a double-strand break ...

In a new study, using three-letter “triplet” RNA, scientists induced RNA replication by preventing the RNA double helix from zipping together ... before the evolutionary arrival of DNA or even ...

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

New research predicts the location of DNA sequences that can form structures besides the canonical double helix — non-B DNA — in the recently released telomere-to-telomere genomes of the great ...