DNA can last for many centuries. A new DNA storage technology works in the laboratory with parallelizable writing processes ...

DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid. Nucleic acids are named for where they're found—inside the nuclei of cells—and for the ...

thymine and uracil are all pyrimidines: single rings. To maintain its orderly structure, single rings on one strand can only bond with double rings on the other. This keeps the DNA molecule in the ...

Rosalind Franklin, James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA—that molecular blueprint for life—over 70 ...

New research has filled in gaps in the original soybean reference genome, identifying thousands of transcription initiation ...

Mitochondria possess their own DNA (mtDNA), which plays important roles in cellular respiration and energy consumption.

In genetics, it has generally been accepted that each gene has one transcription initiation site, located downstream of a core promoter region and typically around a TATA box — a DNA sequence rich in ...

Researchers used mitochondrial gene editing to model genetic disorders in mice, revealing profound impacts on brain function, ...

Animal models expressing loss-of-function mutations in mitochondrial DNA enable the investigation of mitochondrial gene function and related disorders. In a recent study, scientists from Korea ...

Molecular grunt work When a DSB happens in DNA, it's like a load-bearing beam in a building breaking. A careful, precise repair is needed to ensure the building's—or the DNA's—stability. The ...

Rather than training the algorithm on content scraped from the internet, scientists trained the AI on nearly three million ...