Scientists have created an entirely new kind of DNA with eight chemical letters instead of four — and it still forms a double ...

Helix was founded in 2015 with help from Illumina, which makes the majority of DNA-sequencing machines in the US, but it wasn’t until earlier this year that the company rolled out its marketplace of ...

SAN CARLOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Helix, a personal genomics company, today launched the first online marketplace for DNA-powered products that offer insights on ancestry, entertainment, family, ...

DNA can sustain serious injuries called double strand breaks, in which both strands of the helix snap. These breaks are among ...

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 - it’s ...

On April 21, thousands of scientists gathered in South San Francisco, Calif. to form the world's largest DNA helix. Organized by Genentech, Inc., a biotechnology company that produces research in ...

James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died. He was 97. The ...

Scripps Research scientists have discovered how some tumors endure DNA damage, revealing a potential new way to target them. The DNA inside our cells is constantly exposed to damage, and one of the ...

A closeup look at colibactin’s structure reveals chemical motifs that guide its mutation-wreaking “warheads” to specific stretches of DNA.