Fluorogenic DNA aptamers produce light only in the correct structural state, enabling programmable molecular logic, ...

Life's instructions are written in DNA, but it is the enzyme RNA polymerase II (Pol II) that reads the script, transcribing ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints ...

This radical new method could preserve our entire knowledge base for thousands of years, in a storage medium the size of a ...

The protein, reverse transcriptase, has become an essential tool for making DNA copies of RNA.

There’s more to dna than just the double helix we know and love: under some conditions this familiar molecule can take on ...

DNA scaffolds that mirror influenza virus protein geometry boost antiviral binding and reduce infection more effectively than free molecules, enabling a modular antiviral design strategy.

The Yakima Herald-Republic failed to cover (or even mention) the death of one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century, James Watson.

Scientists have recently successfully isolated and sequenced the oldest-known RNA from a juvenile male woolly mammoth – thought to be about five to 10 years old – that inhabited Siberia about 39,000 ...