DNA makes RNA, RNA makes protein, protein makes phenotype—was the guiding framework for understanding inheritance and disease ...

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

Two new landmark studies show how a seeming tangle of DNA is actually organized into a structure that coordinates thousands of genes to form a sperm cell. The work, published March 3 as two papers in ...

Turquet’s octopus, which is widespread around Antarctica, has a lot to tell scientists about West Antarctica's imminent ice sheet collapse.

The first crystal structure of an alternative DNA shape from the insulin gene has been revealed by a UCL-led research team.

The first crystal structure of an alternative DNA shape from the insulin gene has been revealed.

In the middle of the 20th century, accumulating data suggested that DNA carries life’s genetic information. Biochemists around the world raced to determine its structure. The competition led to ...

Two researchers say that Rosalind Franklin knowingly collaborated with James Watson and Francis Crick to discover the molecular structure of DNA.

An article written for Time Magazine, but never published, could have rewritten the history of how DNA was discovered.

James Watson and Francis Crick revealed the structure of DNA — the genetic instructions in all living things — 70 years ago in the journal Nature. Watson and Crick could not have succeeded ...