Artificial DNA letters beyond A, T, G, C break a fundamental pairing rule to produce nanostructures with new shapes, far greater durability, and an unexpected ability to self-sort.

At-home cancer tests claim to detect cancer in the earlier, more treatable stages. But there are a few caveats.

In back-to-back studies published in Nature, researchers from Purdue University and Columbia University report a naturally ...

In their landmark 1961 paper on the lac operon, Nobel laureates François Jacob and Jacques Monod speculated that RNA might control gene activity in bacteria through base-pairing interactions. But once ...

Healthy strands this way.

During a session hosted by the Division of Biochemistry and Chemical Biology (BIOL), Wei Sun, a chemical biologist at ...