Scientists see the first steps of DNA unwinding Scientists report the most detailed account yet of the very first steps in DNA replication, an event that all life uses to grow and reproduce Peer ...

The DNA packed inside every human cell contains instructions for life, written in billions of letters of genetic code. Every time a cell divides, the complete code, divided among 46 chromosomes ...

During normal cell division, the first step of DNA replication involves proteins called helicases that form two sleeves around the DNA double helix.

A new study from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), published in Nature, captures the moment DNA begins to unwind, allowing for all the events that follow in DNA replication.

During normal cell division, the first step of DNA replication involves proteins called helicases that form two sleeves around the DNA double helix.

For the first time, scientists have witnessed the very moment DNA begins to unravel, revealing a necessary molecular event for DNA to be the molecule that codes all life. A new study from King ...

While scientists have long known the importance of helicase in DNA replication, "they did not know how DNA, helicases and ATP work together in a coordinated cycle to drive DNA unwinding," De ...

Researchers have shown for the first time how Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCV), which causes an aggressive skin cancer called Merkel cell carcinoma, initiates DNA replication in host cells.