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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has succeeded in developing a new method to directly measure ...

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 ...

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

The thriving upstate New York structural biology community was apparent at the inaugural WNY Structural Biology Collaborative ...