What if you could take a picture of every gene inside a living organism—not with light, but with DNA itself? Scientists at ...

Around the same time, researchers James Watson and Francis Crick were pursuing a definitive model for the stable structure of DNA inside cell nuclei. Watson and Crick ultimately used Franklin's ...

Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves.

Scientists at EMBL have captured how human chromosomes fold into their signature rod shape during cell division, using a ...

In fact, Watson and Crick were worried that they would be "scooped" by Pauling, who proposed a different model for the three-dimensional structure of DNA just months before they did. In the end ...

With the help of her photograph, James Watson and Francis Crick were able to piece together the first accurate model of DNA. Shown here is the structure of naked DNA -- DNA without all of the ...

He added that to the model, so that matching base ... just like the one before. This way DNA can reproduce itself without changing its structure -- except for occasional errors, or mutations.

Crick and Watson were trying to build a 3D model of the DNA molecule. But they were not the only ones working on finding its structure. They were competing with a team at King's College London ...

For successful cell division, chromosomal DNA needs to be packed into compact rod-shaped structures. Defects in this process ...

This multilayer model is compatible with all the structural ... blocks introduced in the monotonous linear structure of ...

MSK researchers shed new light on G-quadruplexes, a type of secondary DNA structure that has attracted attention as a potential therapeutic target in cancer.

DNA molecules are large and complex. They carry the genetic code that determines the characteristics of a living organism. The diagram shows the relationship between the cell, its nucleus, the ...