We looked at the inverse problem: we started from the DNA’s response to aggressive stresses, such as the forced unzipping of the double helix, to recover the details of the thermodynamics.

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

In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of DNA’s structure—the now famous double ...

They are called plectonemes. They are the analog of the twisted tangles of telephone cords, and can form in DNA that is pulled through a nanoscale channel. This is the finding of a study led by Ulrich ...

DNA holds the instructions that make us who we are. If we want to read those instructions, say, to understand our predisposition to genetic disorders, we need to carefully "unzip" DNA's iconic ...

Its twisted, double-helix structure is one of the most iconic images in the scientific world. RNA gets a little less attention than DNA, but it is no less important.

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 helix we know from biology textbooks. The ...

CLAIM: COVID-19 mRNA vaccines alter recipients' DNA by changing its shape to a "triple helix." THE FACTS: There is no evidence that the COVID-19 vaccines are editing humans' DNA, experts have told the ...

We looked at the inverse problem: we started from the DNA’s response to aggressive stresses, such as the forced unzipping of the double helix, to recover the details of the thermodynamics. Due to the ...

DNA is made of two linked strands that appear like a twisted ladder, referred to as a double helix. RNA is closely related to DNA, and one type, called messenger RNA or mRNA, sends instructions to ...

We looked at the inverse problem: we started from the DNA’s response to aggressive stresses, such as the forced unzipping of the double helix, to recover the details of the thermodynamics. Due to the ...