DNA doesn’t knot under stress. A new study finds it coils into plectonemes, reshaping models of genome mechanics. For decades ...

The case against Long Island’s suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer has emerged as a potentially precedent-setting battleground in the use of advanced DNA techniques in criminal cases.

Explore types of therapeutic proteins, design strategies and the production methods used in treating cancer, autoimmune diseases and more.

Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural ...

DNA aptamers are powerful molecular tools in biosensing, bioimaging and therapeutics. However, a limited understanding of ...

How does the cell convert DNA into working proteins? The process of translation can be seen as the decoding of instructions for making proteins, involving mRNA in transcription as well as tRNA ...

Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments with pea plants, long before the discovery of ...

Transposable elements, also known as “jumping genes,” are DNA sequences that move from one location on the genome to another. These elements were first identified more than 50 years ago by ...