A joint research team has developed an automated design technology that enables the creation of DNA origami structures that ...

Computational chemists at the University of Amsterdam's Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences have developed a ...

DNA aptamers are powerful molecular tools in biosensing, bioimaging and therapeutics. However, a limited understanding of their tertiary structures and binding mechanisms hinders their further ...

Living cells constantly exchange ions (i.e., charged particles) via the thin barrier that surrounds their interior, known as ...

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are used as colorimetric biosensors that, combined with immobilised single-stranded DNA (ssDNA-AuNPs), can be used in genetic diagnosis because of their rapid and ...

The hierarchical self-assembly of simple units, such as proteins and nucleic acids, into sophisticated objects, such as organelles and cells, is the basic characteristic of life. Biological processes ...

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 some ...

The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science has developed an ultrasensitive immunoassay-based analytical platform ...

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. And now some important ...

They were hardly modest, these two brash young scientists who in 1953 declared to patrons of the Eagle Pub in Cambridge, England, that they had "found the secret of life." But James Watson and Francis ...

Seventy years ago, two male scientists, Francis Crick and James Watson, proclaimed they had discovered the secret of life: the structure of DNA. Since then, history has acknowledged how Rosalind ...

DNA is the molecular basis of heredity, the inherited traits that pass between generations in a person's family tree. Embodied in the sequence of base pairs, DNA carries information between ...