Plant DNA in Fabrics May Catch Smugglers. By Hilda Munoz . July 18, 2003 12 AM PT . ... Now the double helix can help uncover a different sort of crime, albeit a less deadly one: ...

More than seven decades later, mathematician Robert Monjo believes he has discovered a similarly significant double helix — but this time not as the structure of human DNA, but as the structure ...

Your DNA is continually damaged by sources both inside and outside your body. One especially severe form of damage called a ...

Researchers at Northwestern University found that DNA strand separation may require more force than previously thought when ...

Not all DNA looks like the familiar twisted ladder. Sometimes, parts of our genetic code fold into unusual shapes. One such ...

Jacob Bøtter. DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid, is a wonderful molecule. The blueprint of all life, the little double helix holds massive amounts of information in a tightly coiled structure—a ...

Exactly 66 years ago, on April 25, 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson published their famous article that showed that the shape of DNA is a double helix. They weren’t able to see DNA directly ...

The discovery of DNA's double helix structure 70 years ago opened up a world of new science — and also sparked disputes over who contributed what and who deserves credit. Much of the controversy ...