One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published ...

SALT LAKE CITY, March 23, 2009 - In a dramatic rewrite of the recipe for life, scientists from Florida today described the design of a new type of DNA with 12 chemical letters instead of the usual ...

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have finally succeeded in creating the largest simulation of an entire gene of human DNA. A billion atoms were required to model the simulation. According ...

Life depends on double-stranded DNA unwinding and separating into single strands that can be copied for cell division. Scientists have determined at atomic resolution the structure of machinery that ...

April 23 (UPI) --Scientists have for the first time created a billion-atom biomolecular simulation. Researchers designed the computer model to simulate a single DNA gene. The feat, described this ...