MIT biological engineers have created a new computer model that allows them to design the most complex three-dimensional DNA shapes ever produced, including rings, bowls, and geometric structures such ...

With the AlphaFold 3 AI model, the company aims to transform the understanding of the biological world and drug discovery. Also read: Google’s next big AI-powered photo feature could be RealFill: Here ...

The first crystal structure of an alternative DNA shape from the insulin gene has been revealed by a UCL-led research team. DNA is widely accepted to be formed of two strands that wind around one ...

One of the most important milestones in modern science, does April 25 also mark the date of an intellectual heist? As has been well-documented, a third person contributed to the discovery — the ...

As illustrated with OnScreen Gene Transcription in our May 1 column, OnScreen Science now has a few very nice iPad apps to teach students about DNA and RNA. The OnScreen DNA Model app was the original ...

James Watson had a dream in which he was walking up a spiral staircase. He and Francis Crick had been working on the structure of DNA at the Cavendish Laboratories in England, but were stymied by the ...