People who study molecular biology are rightfully called molecular biologists. Their job is to conduct experiments to investigate the structure, function, processing, regulation, and evolution of ...

DNA’s chemical cousin, RNA, was the messenger that carries DNA instructions from the double helix in the cell’s nucleus to ...

In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of DNA’s structure—the now famous double ...

Structural biology provides information about the organization of living matter, including the spatial disposition of atoms and molecules, the global folding of a biopolymer or even the association of ...

Chemical insight into biological function is the holy grail of structural biology. Small molecules are central players as building blocks, effectors and probes of macromolecular structure and ...

A collaborative team from the Rosalind Franklin Institute, the University of Oxford, and Diamond Light Source has developed a breakthrough method that makes it possible to image very small proteins ...

Structural biology is the study of the molecular structure and dynamics of biological macromolecules, particularly proteins and nucleic acids, and how alterations in their structures affect their ...

At school, it's often presented as a tidy double helix but scientists are revealing the varied and intricate shapes of DNA ...

Holes formed in the structure when base pairs were split away, and water leaked into the molecule just as other base pairs came together to plug the hole and keep the water out. With a hydrophobic ...

Our remarkable ability to perform complex tasks—such as thinking, observing, and touch—stems from proteins, the tiny ...

There’s an age-old adage in biology: structure determines function. To understand the function of the myriad proteins that perform vital jobs in a healthy body—or malfunction in a diseased one ...