Scientists now recognize that spontaneous DNA errors, which we acquire in early development all the way until our last breath ...

Scientists from Skoltech and the University of Potsdam have developed a physical theory that sheds light on how molecular ...

In a time when what defines gender is being questioned and discussed, a new study reveals that single changes in DNA make dramatic differences.

(Christoph Burgstedt/iStock/Getty Images Plus) The RNA world hypothesis posits that molecules made up of ribonucleic acids ...

Researchers in France and Japan have transmitted what they describe as the first DNA-encrypted message between laboratories, sending encoded data between Paris and Tokyo using synthetic genetic ...

When bacteria cells replicate, they do so a little differently than human cells do. They don’t undergo mitosis, a splitting that involves construction of spindles to carefully separate the DNA after ...

Scientists have discovered that a protein once thought to simply help load a factor necessary for the copying of DNA, actually plays a key role in ensuring fast and reliable replication—an insight ...

DNA replication is a semi-conservative process in which half of the newly synthesized strands (daughters) are derived from the original strands (mothers). The confirmation of semi-conservative ...

This valuable paper describes the crystal structure of a complex of the Sld3-Cdc45-binding domain (CBD) with Cdc45, which is essential for the assembly of an active Cdc45-MCM-GINS (CMG) double-hexamer ...

Department of Geophysics, Yunnan University, Kunming, China. DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid, carrying encoded genetic information at molecular level, is the most significant discovery in the history of ...

The DNA packed inside every human cell contains instructions for life, written in billions of letters of genetic code. Every time a cell divides, the complete code, divided among 46 chromosomes, must ...