DNA's iconic double helix does more than "just" store genetic information. Under certain conditions, it can temporarily fold ...

How physically magnifying objects using a key ingredient in diapers has opened an unprecedented view of the microbial world.

Chromosomes are masters of organization. These long strings of DNA fold down into an ensemble of compact structures that keep needed parts of the genome accessible while tucking away those that aren't ...

The human genome has to be carefully organized so it will fit inside of the nuclei of cells, while also remaining accessible to the cellular machinery that works to express the right genes at the ...

In mid-December, the 20-year-old Minneapolis resident was walking through the city’s Cedar-Riverside neighborhood when federal immigration officers stopped him. He offered to show identification. They ...

SAN ANTONIO — A new statewide program is giving sexual assault survivors the ability to collect and test DNA evidence without having to file a police report, according to a press release from the ...

The DNA that helped link a former Pasco police officer to a 1986 murder may become the reason he gets a new trial. Appellate court Judges Robert Lawrence-Berrey, Tracy A. Staab and Megan Murphy ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – Modern DNA testing and forensic reanalysis have cast new doubt on the evidence used to convict Tommy Zeigler in 1976 of four murders that occurred on Christmas Eve 1975, his attorneys ...

With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to increased knowledge about gene regulation in human cells. How genes are turned on ...

A central piece of a closed crude oil refinery in Convent recently came crashing down as Shell Oil shifts the nearly 60-year-old complex toward making renewable fuels, company officials confirmed. The ...

“The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we conceived of life itself. The X-ray crystallography by Rosalind Franklin ...