At the scale of individual cells, the human body is constantly in motion. Every second, millions of cells divide, ...

Bacteria have transformed some viruses — now called gene-transfer agents — into a means of exchanging genetic material among ...

"The real 'aha' moment came from biochemical experiments and the cryo-EM structure. Hiroshi Nishimasu and his team could actually see the DNA product sitting in the enzyme, and the structure put these ...

One of the most iconic visual representations in biological science is the double helix – the twisting, twin-stranded ladder that defines the shape of DNA molecules. But not all DNA follows this same ...

Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences, in partnership with other institutions, have pinpointed the exact location where DNA begins to unwind as cells initiate the duplication of their ...

[Exclusive] Premiering on Monday at this year’s Annecy Festival, Rogue Trooper has been a long-held passion for writer and director Duncan Jones. The director’s proposal to make a film based on the ...

The researchers, led by chemistry professor Zan Luthey-Schulten at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, present their findings in the journal Cell. In two videos, researchers describe the work ...

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Every time a cell divides, it must copy its entire genome so that each daughter cell inherits a complete set of DNA. During that process, enzymes known as polymerases race along the DNA to copy its ...

Scientists have discovered that a protein once thought to simply help load a factor necessary for the copying of DNA, actually plays a key role in ensuring fast and reliable replication—an insight ...