New research reveals smoking's direct impact on DNA, elevating cancer risk. The study underscores the importance of quitting smoking for better health outcomes ...

An unusual DNA structure may hold the key to treating one of the deadliest cancers affecting women, which claims more than ...

Small changes in the structure of DNA have been implicated in breast cancer and other diseases, but they've been extremely difficult to detect -- until now. Using what they describe as a 'chemical ...

The DNA molecule contains information in a chemical code—the code of life. The effects of discovery of the structure of DNA have been called “a revolution far greater in its potential ...

According to David Liu, a chemical biologist at Harvard University, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, understanding DNA’s structure “raised the ...

Eggs and embryos from people with polycystic ovary syndrome have altered patterns of so-called epigenetic tags, which could ...

The articles in this Subject space describe the science surrounding the structure and function of DNA. Here, you will find information on the chemical structure of DNA; organization of DNA into ...

In the DNA double helix, cytosine forms a base pair with guanine via three hydrogen bonds, contributing to the stability of the DNA molecule. This image depicts the chemical structure of cytosine. It ...

Biology textbooks may be due for a rewrite. For the first time, scientists have detected a DNA structure inside living human cells that looks more like a four-stranded knot than the elegant double ...