DNA can sustain serious injuries called double strand breaks, in which both strands of the helix snap. These breaks are among ...

Jyoti Vakhlu [email protected] From laws of inheritance to the molecule of heredity – a journey of scientific ...

The microbe Pyrodictium abyssi is an archaeon—a member of what's known as the third domain of life—and an extremophile. It ...

Inside every human cell, six feet of DNA folds into a nucleus that is only a few micrometers wide, yet still manages to ...

Some of the most transformative breakthroughs in science history arrived wrapped in obscurity. Dr. Rosalind Franklin captured Photo 51—the X-ray crystallography image that revealed DNA’s double ...

Nobel Prize- winning American scientist James Dewey Watson, the man who unravelled the ‘secret of life’, passed away on November 6, 2025. Watson, who is widely remembered as the Godfather of ...

The DNA inside our cells is constantly being damaged, and one of the worst kinds of damage is a double-strand break—when both ...

A closeup look at colibactin’s structure reveals chemical motifs that guide its mutation-wreaking “warheads” to specific stretches of DNA.

Scripps Research scientists have discovered how some tumors endure DNA damage, revealing a potential new way to target them. The DNA inside our cells is constantly exposed to damage, and one of the ...

High-resolution imaging has revealed the internal layout of chromatin condensates, showing how DNA fibers fold and interact ...

When DNA breaks, cells must repair it accurately to prevent harmful mutations. Researchers have discovered that during a key ...