Tag: dna

The fist DNA benders!

Scientists took inspiration from digital compression to 'zip' DNA.

That's one really dramatic typo.

It's the first time CRISPR was used to store and retrieve media from DNA.

This can be a game changer.

“Imagine a camel without a hump, with feet like a slender rhino, and a head shaped like a saiga antelope."

From Egypt's pyramids to Viking longboats, cats never left our side since we invented agriculture.

The method can be used for any type of damage where the cell has to replace bits of DNA.

Worrying.

Neanderthals took the herbal equipment of aspirin and penicillin.

A huge breakthrough might help solve our growing 'big data' storage problem.

Some of your bases are belong to us.

That's a lot of coat.

It's not just your lungs either.

Thanks to prehistoric humans and modern DNA tools, scientists have cracked a mystery of science.

So far, the baby girl is happy and healthy.

Smoking is bad for your health, and that includes genes too.

It could be a game-changer for law enforcement.

DNA is so versatile.

Keeping your genes in good condition is priority nr.1 for all life.

A male sex hormone could keep our cells young forever.

Researchers from Lund University in Sweden and the Center of Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona have identified four sequences of genetic ...

Scientists want to build and deploy a fully synthetic human genome in human cell lines within 10 years.

This remarkable research could open the doors for biological thermometers at the nanoscale which might tell us a thing or ...

For archiving purposes, at least, DNA -- the blueprint or genetic recipe that codes all life -- might be worth ...

These predatory amoebas are usually very good at finding enough to eat by themselves, but when food is short they ...

Some people have no trouble rising early and being productive, while others are most active during the evenings. This begs ...

A new study finds that many cancers are caused by mutations that block the tumor suppressor gene’s effect, through a ...

Also known as the water bear, the tardigrade has a lot to be proud of -- this tiny organism is ...

DNA - you either know is as deoxyribonucleic acid, or that stuff that somehow makes us what we are. DNA is ...

In what can only be classed as a breakthrough in medicine, a team at Washington University in St. Louis found ...

It's been only a decade since the Human Genome Project finished its task of mapping all the code that makes ...

The revelation that DNA chemically self-assembles to build life was a game changer. Now, DNA's self-assembly capability is moving past ...

In an announcement that’s been a long time coming for science fiction fans, the White House has, for the first ...

We seem to be losing the war on elephant poachers, but a new toolset that involves tracing slaughter hotspots in ...

DNA analysis of the jawbone of a human who lived in modern day Romania some 40,000 years ago has the ...

Dr. Milton Wainwright is trying to convince the world that the found alien life floating some 25 miles in our ...

Scientists are working to gather more and more details about Icelandic DNA, in an attempt to design better drugs and ...

You may look more like your mom or more like your dad, but technically, you inherit equal amounts of genetic ...

The carnivorous bladderwort (Utricularia gibba) a carnivorous plant which occurs fresh water and wet soil. Recently, they took biologists by ...

Stanford scientists proved that it's possible use DNA minirings that code the production of a specific protein that can't be ...

The best storage medium might actually be DNA, considering the vast amount of information it store relative to its weight ...

Dr. Robert W. Levenson is a psychologist at UC Berkeley who has been studying 156 married middle-aged and older couples ...

It's believed that 0.5% of all people alive today or millions of people are descendants of Genghis Khan - the ...

For the very first time, engineers have used the DNA origami assembly method to build  complex DNA-based mechanism that performs ...

Among evidence analyzed during a rape-related crime investigation, one of the best clues that might incriminate a suspect are pubic ...

DNA is widely recognized by its double helix, but if you look at the molecule through a microscope you might ...

The remains of King Richard III have been confirmed with pin-point accuracy by the latest round of sequencing; exclusive details ...

An experiment fortuitously called DARE (DNA atmospheric re-entry experiment) has come to a most unexpected conclusion: DNA can indeed survive full ...

Following the genome sequence of the oldest modern human remains outside of Africa using the most refined DNA analysis to ...