Explore cytosine, a fundamental base in DNA and RNA, its critical role in gene regulation and epigenetics, and its significance in biotechnology and genetic diseases.

Newly developed artificial intelligence (AI) programs accurately predicted the role of DNA's regulatory elements and three-dimensional (3D) structure based solely on its raw sequence, according to ...

In the middle of the 20th century, accumulating data suggested that DNA carries life’s genetic information. Biochemists around the world raced to determine its structure. The competition led to ...

Neural networks are computing systems designed to mimic both the structure and function of the human brain. Caltech ...

DNA holds our genetic blueprints, but its cousin, RNA, conducts our daily lives I n 1957, just four years after Francis Crick ...

James Watson and Francis Crick revealed the structure of DNA — the genetic instructions in all living things — 70 years ago in the journal Nature. Watson and Crick could not have succeeded ...

Its functions are essential for head assembly, genome packaging, neck and tail attachment, and genome ejection. The focus of this study was to determine the functions of the portal at the molecular ...

DNA aptamers are powerful molecular tools in biosensing, bioimaging and therapeutics. However, a limited understanding of ...

A piece that aired on NPR this week about the discovery of DNA's structure neglected to mention the significant contribution of Rosalind Franklin to that scientific milestone.

The first crystal structure of an alternative DNA shape from the insulin gene has been revealed.