To actually visualize the double-helical structure of DNA, researchers require special ... To see chromosomes in this way, scientists must first use a chemical process that attaches the ...

The study from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, led by Prof. Sheera Adar and her graduate student Elisheva Heilbrun-Katz ...

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), the molecular "blueprint" carrying the genetic instructions that influence the growth, ...

But James Watson and Francis Crick's claim was a valid one, for they had in fact discovered the structure of DNA, the chemical that encodes instructions for building and replicating almost all ...

Cigarette smoke causes cancer primarily by damaging the DNA. A new study that mapped the DNA damages caused by smoking, ...

Later, in 1960, the discovery that an RNA molecule and a DNA molecule could form a hybrid ... these RNAs all share the same basic single-stranded chemical structure with, in some cases, higher ...

In a study published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, scientists from the Department of Medical Biochemistry and ...

Cigarette smoke causes cancer primarily by damaging the DNA. A new study that mapped these damages has revealed that the way ...

Thymine is a fundamental building block of DNA, playing a critical role in the structure, stability, and genetic information storage of living organisms. Its complementary base pairing with adenine ...

The study, published in Nucleic Acids Research, focused on benzo (a)pyrene, a toxic chemical in cigarette smoke, which binds to DNA when processed by the body, and disrupts its normal function and ...