Researchers at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI) at Kanazawa University have directly visualized how enzymes find ...

Researchers at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI) at Kanazawa University have directly visualized how enzymes find and break DNA molecules in real time. Using high-speed atomic force ...

From 'Why a double helix?', 'What are 5′ and 3′?', to 'Why can it replicate?'—DNAis a molecule that stores information in the ...

A cell's ability to repair its damaged DNA is one of the most fundamental processes in biology, helping protect us from ...

DNA sequence regulates complex reactions and protein-DNA interactions, yet sequence effects remain poorly understood due to the lack of direct, high-throughput approaches to study sequence-dependence ...

DNA methylation has become one of the hottest targets in modern biomedicine. The chemical tags that adorn cytosine bases ...

Using advanced imaging techniques and precise microfluidics control to stretch out curly DNA into a straight line, new research demonstrates techniques for stretching and immobilizing DNA with minimum ...

The newest DNA sequencing technology from Swiss multinational Roche doesn’t measure DNA directly but in fact analyzes a different polymer altogether. The technology is not yet available for sale, but ...

Thymine modified polymer for delivering DNA into cells. A thymine modified compound, poly (ethylene glycol) (PEG), is bound to DNA through an annealing process, then delivered by intramuscular ...

For decades, mitochondrial DNA disorders have stood among the most stubborn challenges in medicine: a group of inherited ...

Researchers at the Nano Life Science Institute at Kanazawa University in Japan say they have directly visualized how enzymes ...