Synthetic DNA seems to behave like the natural variety, suggesting that chemicals beyond nature’s four familiar bases could support life on Earth.

Benner’s team, which includes researchers from various US companies and institutions, created the synthetic letters by tweaking the molecular structure of the regular bases. The letters of DNA ...

Coded into letters—A, C, G and T—these instructions govern the way our bodies look and the way they work. In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the now-famous "double helix" DNA ...

Updated 2:37 p.m. ET Nine boxes of previously unknown letters, postcards and other correspondence from Francis Crick, one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA, have been unearthed in the ...

"DNA is much more than just a string of letters, it's an actual structure that we have to explore if we ever hope to understand biological function. This is a significant step forward, a milestone ...

A long-lost trove of letters written by and to Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, has resurfaced, highlighting the tensions between the members of two English laboratories as ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.

Work has begun on something once-unthinkable: creating human DNA from scratch. Artificial DNA has long been an ethical ...

A letter from DNA pioneer Francis Crick to his son in which he describes the secrets of his groundbreaking model of DNA, weeks before it was made public, is expected to fetch up to USD 2 million ...

James Watson and Francis Crick revealed the structure of DNA — the genetic instructions in all living things — 70 years ago in the journal Nature. Watson and Crick could not have succeeded ...

These molecules are made from genetic instructions in our DNA represented by four letters: A, T, C, and G. Combining three of these letters codes for a protein’s basic building block—an amino acid.

James Watson and Francis Crick revealed the structure of DNA — the genetic instructions in all living things — 70 years ago in the journal Nature. Watson and Crick could not have succeeded ...