Baylor College of Medicine

First step to untangle DNA: supercoiled DNA captures gyrase like a lasso ropes cattle

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 ...
KSL

James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA's double helix, dead at 97

LONG ISLAND, N.Y. — James D. Watson, the brilliant but controversial American biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA, the molecule of heredity, ushered in the age of genetics and ...
Science Daily

First step to untangle DNA: Supercoiled DNA captures gyrase like a lasso ropes cattle

Researchers reveal how DNA gyrase resolves DNA entanglements. The findings not only provide novel insights into this fundamental biological mechanism but also have potential practical applications.
New York Post

James Watson, Nobel Prize winner and co-discoverer of double-helix DNA, dead at 97

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 ...