Researchers from the Tanenbaum group at the Hubrecht Institute have developed a new microscopy technique to observe how ...

Here, authors rationally engineered an artificial DNA-nanoparticle motor with high speed and long run-length which is comparable to motor proteins. Using single-molecule microscopy, Jeon et al.

Researchers from the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment—in collaboration with ...

If you'd like to learn more about your health, heritage and family history, an at-home DNA test can help you do just that. Justin Jaffe is the Managing Editor for CNET Money. He has more than 20 ...

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While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows.

A team at Nagoya University experimented with ways to uncurl a DNA molecule using pressure applied to liquid flowing in a channel, with the pressure flow providing shear force that uncurled the ...

Researchers have previously tried sticking down one end of a DNA molecule to stretch it out, but found that the thermal fluctuations could still cause movement and blurring. "Stretching DNA refers ...

The authors used a combination of super-resolution imaging techniques and liquid pressure flow to fine-tune the stretch ratio of a DNA molecule, improving the lateral resolution of side-by-side ...

In a new study, researchers have unveiled a surprising potential hero in the battle against hair loss: 2-deoxy-D-ribose, a simple sugar molecule that forms the backbone of DNA. Could this natural ...

Each DNA molecule has two strands held together by bonds between compounds on the strands, called base pairs. Our genome contains 3.2 billion base-pairs. A gene is typically a few-thousand base ...