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 ...

As part of the team in 2017 that mapped the structure of a human antibody ... scouts in the fight against viral diseases. A virus is, arguably, the smallest possible living thing. It is a bundle of ...

But James Watson and Francis Crick's claim was a valid one, for they had in fact discovered the structure of DNA, the chemical that encodes instructions for building and replicating almost all ...

DNA is a super flexible and modular structure, meaning that with the right sequences ... DNA molecule that was either synthesized or derived from a bacteriophage virus. They mixed this DNA with ...

Chances are you've seen an illustration of DNA's double-helix structure and even pictures of the chromosomes that make up the human genome. But where and how does the famous double helix fit into ...

Crystal Structure of Eukaryotic DNA Ligase-Adenylate Chlorella virus DNA ligase (ChVLig) is the smallest eukaryotic ATP-dependent ligase known. As the “minimal” DNA ligase, it presented an attractive ...

For the first time, scientists have witnessed the very moment DNA begins to unravel, revealing a necessary molecular event for DNA to be the molecule that codes all life.

Earlier that morning, in the nearby Cavendish laboratory, the two scientists had discovered the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. This discovery changed the world of science and medicine ...

A bacteriophage is a type of virus that infects bacteria ... of a nucleic acid molecule that is surrounded by a protein structure. A bacteriophage attaches itself to a susceptible bacterium ...

During replication, newly copied viral genomes are packaged up into this three-layer structure in a process called viral assembly. While some drugs can block the virus' DNA replication and ...