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 ...

As next-generation technologies continue to drive down costs for DNA sequencing, DNA tests have become more accessible to the masses. Illumina spinout Helix, which runs an online marketplace for such ...

The DNA inside our cells is constantly being damaged, and one of the worst kinds of damage is a double-strand break—when both ...

When we learn about human genetics in high school biology class, one of the most basic things we learn about is the DNA double helix, the twisting ladder-shaped structure that holds our genetic code.

“The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we conceived of life itself. The X-ray crystallography by Rosalind Franklin ...

There’s more to dna than just the double helix we know and love: under some conditions this familiar molecule can take on ...

Picture in your mind a traditional “landline” telephone with a coiled cord connecting the handset to the phone. The coiled telephone cord and the DNA double helix that stores the genetic material in ...

The 1.75 Å crystal structure of the Kluyveromyces lactis heat shock transcription factor (HSF) DNA-binding domain (DBD) complexed with DNA reveals a protein–DNA interface with few direct major groove ...