DNA contains foundational information needed to sustain life. Understanding how this information is stored and organized has been one of the greatest scientific challenges of the last century. With ...

61 years ago today, the molecular structure of DNA was revealed to the world in the pages of Nature. The double helix is now emblematic of the programming language of life, and our understanding of ...

When her grandfather lost his fight against prostate cancer, Dr Mpho Mokoatle’s world was shaken. Raised by him in Orkney, a small town in North West, she not only lost the man who had been her father ...

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Kathleen A. Hill receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Lila Kari receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of ...