Silkhenge spiders were an unknown species until just over a decade ago. This is why when scientists stumbled upon a silkhenge ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that little-studied DNA structures play a central role in organizing the human genome and controlling gene activity, according to a new study published ...

DNA can assume a variety of secondary structures aside from the canonical B-form. Sequences capable of forming these alternative structures in vitro are often sites of genomic instability in vivo.