Geneticist Sir Paul Nurse on the amazing breakthroughs that followed the discovery of DNA - and how it directly impacted his own family. Made by BBC Ideas in partnership with the Science Museum Group, ...

Many people recall that the structure of the DNA molecule has the shape of a double helix. Some may even recall the names of the scientists who won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine for modeling the ...

Figure 1: Scheme of three designed clusters assembled from DNA-functionalized gold nanoparticles on correspondingly encoded vertices of octahedral DNA frames. Figure 2: Structure of the self-assembled ...

Many people have never heard of British scientist Rosalind Franklin. Her research helped solve the mystery of the structure of DNA - the building blocks of life. In 1952, Franklin took X-Ray ...

G-quadruplexes (G4s) are non-canonical nucleic acid structures formed by guanine-rich DNA sequences and stabilized by Hoogsteen hydrogen bonds and monovalent cations. These structures are biologically ...