Four years ago, researcher Eduardo Gorab, of the University of São Paulo Biosciences Center (IB/USP), developed a method that uses a known antibody to recognize a rare type of structure found in the ...

CLAIM: COVID-19 mRNA vaccines alter recipients' DNA by changing its shape to a "triple helix." THE FACTS: There is no evidence that the COVID-19 vaccines are editing humans' DNA, experts have told the ...

Telomerase is responsible for replication of the ends of linear chromosomes in most eukaryotes. Its intrinsic RNA subunit provides the template for synthesis of telomeric DNA by the ...

A team of researchers at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) have managed for the first time to extract trustworthy structural ...

Collagen, the most abundant protein in mammals, owes its remarkable strength and resilience to a unique triple helical structure. This conformation is formed by three intertwined polypeptide chains ...