For decades, biologists treated DNA as a static string of letters, a linear code that cells read like text on a page. A new ...

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have shown that DNA inflexibility, or rigidity, inside the ...

With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to ...

Through powerful high-resolution microscopy and precise biochemical methods, researchers at the Sloan Kettering Institute have seen for the first time how proteins and DNA come together to commence ...

Life's instructions are written in DNA, but it is the enzyme RNA polymerase II (Pol II) that reads the script, transcribing ...

There are a total of 5 multi-subunit complexes in the inner membrane of the mitochondria, all of which are involved in the process of oxidative phosphorylation that precedes ATP production. Of these, ...

Francesco Neri, a molecular biologist at the University of Turin in Italy who was not involved with the work, tells The Scientist in an email that he speculates these transcripts could serve as ...