A team has unearthed new findings about what happens during the minutes and hours after a cell divides, expanding our understanding of human biology -- and potentially leading to better medicines.

Watson and Crick's discovery of DNA structure in 1953 revealed a possible mechanism for DNA replication. So why didn't Meselson and Stahl finally explain this mechanism until 1958 ...

This image compares three DNA sequencing technologies: Sanger sequencing, Massively Parallel DNA sequencing, and Nanopore DNA sequencing. Sanger sequencing (left) sequences 500-700 bases per reaction ...

Variability in cell-to-cell expression and in DNA replication can be partly explained in terms of the affinity landscape of a DNA sequence for transcription factors and nucleosomes. Complex ...

Since then DNA research has sought to explain the human code. Whether testing for possible diseases or tracing human history, interest in our genetic makeup has grown considerably. While we are ...

How cells respond to mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) damage is not fully understood. This study uncovers a mechanism of mtDNA ...

The team initially set out to study another replication machinery protein ... but it's much more efficient to throw the motor out,” Wuite explained. Unlike cars, a cell has multiple DNA polymerase ...