How does the cell convert DNA into working proteins? The process of translation can be seen as the decoding of instructions for making proteins, involving mRNA in transcription as well as tRNA. But ...

One of biology's fundamental questions is how our genes shape who we are. Adrian Serohijos and Stephen Michnick, professors ...

Researchers are exploring how DNA–protein hydrogels can turn molecular information into mechanical and functional properties ...

Every time a cell divides, it must copy its entire genome so that each daughter cell inherits a complete set of DNA. During that process, enzymes known as polymerases race along the DNA to copy its ...

McMillan’s lab aims to further characterize the role of SSB as a first responder and the proteins that are part of the crisis ...

Sculpture of the DNA helix outside the Francis Crick Centre. Image by Tim Sandle. For more than half a century, protein crystallization has been one of the great bottlenecks of structural biology.

DNA–protein hydrogels extend DNA nanotechnology from precisely organized nanoscale structures into dynamic soft materials ...

Using DNA, the team directed proteins to assemble into diffraction-quality, intentionally designed crystal structures with atomic-level order. The strategy enabled the scientists to precisely control ...

Data from a new study in mice connects unrepaired DNA-protein crosslinks (DPCs), highly toxic tangles of protein and DNA, to inflammation-linked premature aging and embryonic lethality in mice. The ...

Some seeds refuse to die. Date palm seeds recovered from Herod’s Palace near Jerusalem, roughly 2,000 years old, have been ...