The detailed characterization of cucumber centromeres enhances our understanding of genome structure and evolution, which is critical for genetic mapping and breeding programs.

In 1963, Popular Science reported on the Nobel Prize-winning discovery, and Rosalind Franklin⁠—the woman who was left out of the accolades.

DNA is found in nearly all living cells. However, its exact location within a cell depends on whether that cell possesses a special membrane-bound organelle called a nucleus. Organisms composed of ...

The Discovery of DNA's Structure: They were hardly modest, these two brash young scientists who in 1953 declared to patrons of the Eagle Pub in Cambridge, England, that they had "found the secret ...

Newly developed DNA nanostructures can form flexible, fluid, and stimuli-responsive condensates without relying on chemical ...

DNA during cell division There is so much genetic material making up the chromosomes that the DNA molecule is 2 metres in length – but it must be folded up tightly to fit into the nucleus of the cell ...

DNA holds the instructions that make us who we are. If we want to read those instructions, say, to understand our ...

Citation: Pray, L. (2008) Discovery of DNA structure and function: Watson and Crick. Nature Education 1 (1):100 The landmark ideas of Watson and Crick relied heavily on the work of other scientists.

Telomerase tops up the telomeres Telomeres were first detected at a molecular level in the late 1970s by Elizabeth Blackburn, then at UC Berkeley and now president emerita of the Salk Institute for ...

Next, researchers turned to Hi-C, an established method to reveal the structure of genome packaging based on DNA sequences that are caught residing near each other. (Hi-C isn’t an acronym.