Perhaps, both groups postulate, the current nucleus in eukaryotic cells arose from an endosymbiotic-like event in which a complex, enveloped DNA virus became a permanent resident of an emerging ...

Scientists at Purdue University and the University of Minnesota have solved the three-dimensional structure of the central component of a biological "motor" that powers the DNA packaging system in a ...

Scientists at the University of Leicester have captured the first detailed "molecular movie" showing DNA being unzipped at the atomic level – ...

For the first time, scientists have witnessed the very moment DNA begins to unravel, revealing a necessary molecular event ...

A bacteriophage is a type of virus that infects bacteria ... occasionally remove a portion of their host cells' bacterial DNA during the infection process and then transfer this DNA into the ...

Commonly used gene-editing systems such as CRISPR rely on DNA vectors but they run the risk of leaving behind foreign DNA that can lead to unintended mutations. The new system, developed by ...