DNA, often called the blueprint of life, is built from four chemical building blocks known as deoxy-nucleoside triphosphates ...

Could yeast and humans be any more different? Going by looks alone, probably not. But peering into our genomes reveals ...

New research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison reveals that dysfunction in a protein essential to maintaining ...

They observe how the mobile DNA LINE-1 copies its sequence in human cells, revealing the precise mechanism of the ORF2p gene.

In the double helix structure of DNA, thymine forms a base pair with adenine through two hydrogen bonds. This specific pairing is known as complementary base pairing and is essential for the stability ...

Long Interspersed Nuclear Element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human ...

An international research team has determined the first high-resolution structures of the herpes simplex virus origin-binding ...