The DNA double helix is composed of two DNA molecules whose sequences are complementary to each other. The stability of the duplex can be fine-tuned in the lab by controlling the amount and location ...

Not only can synthetic molecules mimic the structures of their biological models, they can also take on their functions and may even successfully compete with them, as an artificial DNA sequence ...

Scientists have discovered that DNA contains a kind of built-in timer that clocks the frequency with which mutations occur. They show that DNA bases can shape-shift for a thousandth of a second, ...

DNA has an important job—it tells your cells which proteins to make. Now, a research team at the University of Delaware has developed technology to program strands of DNA into switches that turn ...

The NMR and Drug Metabolism Core works closely with the Baylor Center for Drug Discovery, which provides access to compound libraries and DEC-Tec libraries. Pharmaceutical companies have traditionally ...

To assemble these minuscule structures, researchers first create a scaffold: a long piece of single-stranded DNA with a carefully designed sequence of bases. Then they add hundreds of shorter DNA ...

The synthetic DNA maker Twist Bioscience announced at the J.P. Morgan Health Care Conference earlier this month that it is developing enzymatic DNA synthesis technology. The revelation—by a major ...

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna developed the Crispr tool, which can change the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms with high precision. By Katherine J. Wu Carl Zimmer and Elian ...