If measured from beginning to end, the DNA in our cells is too long to fit into the cell's nucleus, explaining why it must be ...

Every living cell must interpret its genetic code—a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions. A ...

Franklin W. Stahl, an American molecular biologist whose landmark 1957-58 experiment with colleague Matthew Meselson revealed ...

A paper in Molecular Cell reports the characterization of a second functional light strand promoter (LSP2) in the mitochondrial genome, challenging the view that mitochondrial DNA replication and ...