The DNA of nearly all life on Earth contains many redundancies, and scientists have long wondered whether these redundancies served a purpose or if they were just leftovers from evolutionary processes ...

A team from the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Hokkaido University, and Osaka University has discovered that subtle differences in molecular structure can have a major impact on the ...

Scientists have told us that theology and science don't belong together, and that only science, has the authority to make truth claims about reality.

Every summer, heatwaves keep smashing records. The World Meteorological Organization reported that the past seven years were ...

THz-driven electron acceleration, compression and streaking have attracted much attention recently [2, 3]. Here, we present a novel THz driven electron streak camera that provides sub-fs temporal ...

A predictive biophysical model that integrates protein-DNA structures and sequences to accurately determine genomic binding sites and affinities of DNA-binding proteins.

Extensive simulations with a long duplex DNA entrapped in the SMC-ScpA complex throughout cyclic conformational changes revealed that DNA translocation proceeds via the segment capture mechanism: the ...

An unusual DNA structure may hold the key to treating one of the deadliest cancers affecting women, which claims more than 200,000 lives globally each year.

Combined genetic and biophysical characterisation establishes that structure stability and probability of structure formation are key determinants of replisome arrest. Mechanistically, replication ...