Acetylation of lysine residues in the tail domain of histone H3 is well characterized, but lysine residues in the histone globular domain are also acetylated. Histone modifications in globular domain ...

The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...

Photos and letters show how James Watson and Francis Crick raced to uncover the double helix structure of DNA.

Leiden researchers, led by Sebastian Pomplun, have developed a new method to screen hundreds of thousands of molecules for ...

Scientists found that DNA’s phosphate groups can direct chemical reactions to make the correct mirror-image form of drug ...

Nahda Nabiilah is a writer and editor from Indonesia. She has always loved writing and playing games, so one day decided to put the two together. Most of the time, writing gaming guides is a blast for ...

Pictures of DNA often look very tidy—the strands of the double helix neatly wind around each other, making it seem like studying genetics should be relatively straightforward. In truth, these strands ...

An ambitious plan to sequence genomes for 1.85 million eukaryotic species on our planet is underway. It's a massive ...

With summer tourism dwindling down at the beach and the holidays approaching, South Carolinians will still find plenty to do in the Grand Strand. From fall events all throughout October in South ...

The cohesin subunit Scc1 returns and reconstitutes the complex with Smc1–Smc3 in late mitosis upon DNA double-strand breaks, although it does not participate in homologous recombination-driven MAT ...