like a spiral staircase. This structure, announced in their famous paper in the April 1953 issue of Nature, explained how the DNA molecule could replicate itself during cell division, enabling ...

DNA is found in nearly all living cells ... distances between the nucleotides that were arranged in a spiral shape called a helix. Around the same time, researchers James Watson and Francis ...

Now, a new study by scientists from Delft, Vienna, and Lausanne reveals that the protein machines that shape our DNA can switch directions. The new finding is published in Cell in an article ...

"The biggest surprise was seeing the distinct spiral shape in the Hubble Space Telescope images. At first I was worried I had made an error," said Achenbach, who made the discovery during the ...

These bases intertwine in a spiral pattern to create the molecule's familiar double helix structure. The arrangement of these letters into sequences produces a code that instructs an organism on how ...