Rebecca Roberts is a science writer and communicator. She earned her PhD in molecular biology from the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia and completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at ...

When it comes to identification with DNA, forensic scientists have two basic approaches at their disposal. One approach analyzes nuclear DNA and is useful in identifying someone who is alive or ...

Many people follow the golden rules of avoiding direct sunlight between the hours of noon and 3 p.m., staying in […] ...

Within the genome, specific segments of DNA called genes act as instructions to make molecules called proteins. Genes are considered the basic units of heredity, as they are passed from parents to ...

DNA replication is one of the most basic processes that occurs within a cell. Each time a cell divides, the two resulting daughter cells must contain exactly the same genetic information ...

So how does protein synthesis make hair? If you've looked at the activity (or even the text version of the activity), you know how a section of DNA instructs a cell how to make a protein.

so histones bind with DNA very tightly. The basic repeating structural (and functional) unit of chromatin is the nucleosome, which contains eight histone proteins and about 146 base pairs of DNA ...

We are interested in homologous recombination not only because of the intellectual challenges it presents, but also on the insights it may bring to the mechanism of the repair of double strand breaks ...