Tag: dna

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 ...

A team at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering demonstrated the latest advances in programmable DNA self-assembly by crystallizing ...

In what is quite an exciting study, a mixed team of researchers and cave divers announced the discovery of a ...

The entire living world is "written" with just four DNA bases: A = adenine C = cytosine G = guanine T = thymine However, ...

Researchers in South Korea may have come across a novel and effective idea to tackle foods tainted with Salmonella bacteria. What looks like ...

(c) University of Iowa You'll be pretty impressed by this novel research. Scientists at  University of Iowa have developed an ingenious biopatch ...

(c) University of Texas One of the greatest mysteries scientists have been trying to reveal is how inanimate chemicals  joined ...

The X-Shape in which we usually see chromosomes depicted in is only a snapshot of their real complexity - a ...

Less than 1.5 percent of our DNA is used in a conventional way, that is to encode for proteins - ...

Only 2% of the human genome is comprised of genes, while the vast majority of genetic material is known as ...

Hand-held device for extracting DNA. (c) UW/NanoFacture/KNR The human genome has been sequenced a mere few years ago, and since ...

Altai dog fossil skull. (c) PLos ONE New DNA analysis of an ancient dog tooth sample found in Siberia suggests ...

Vaccines have become synonymous to needles, and for a lot of people they're the subject of horror stories since childhood. Typically, a ...

I remember years ago, when I got my first computer - it had a storage capacity of 40 MB. A ...

Just write, don't check This is again one of those which gets the media all hyped out, without checking the ...

Exactly 50 years ago, Cambridge researchers Watson and Crick published a monumental paper that for the first time described the intertwined ...

Scientists trying to pinpoint the origin of life have been looking at it the wrong way, a new study claims. ...

Europe's largest minority group, the Romani people have migrated from northwestern India, a new genetic study shows. The Romani, also ...

These are actually designs assembled with lego bricks, but based on the same principle, scientists have devised a new method ...

MRI of one of the authors (MK) is used for illustration. A, with the landmark for left zygion (ZygL) highlighted, ...

The skeleton of an ancient caveman dubbed Brana 1 yielded the oldest DNA found in a modern human. CREDIT: Alberto ...

DNA 11 combines genetic science with art by providing its customers with their own, unique DNA portrait. Pioneers in the ...

Horses are arguably one of the most helpful animals man has ever managed to domesticate. At first they were used ...

Scientists at UK Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology have successfully managed to create an artificial version of both DNA ...

A remarkable research whose findings recently published in the journal Cell, concludes that intense physical exercise leads to chemical alteration ...

An immortal worm isn't exactly what comes to mind when researching how to live forever, but this inconspicuous creature could ...

A new study which analyzed Neanderthal DNA suggests that our close, now extinct relatives were on the point of dying ...

Since the advent of modern DNA sequencing technology, biological research and discoveries has been dramatically accelerated. It's absolutely instrumental to ...

In what can only be hailed as a breakthrough in the "smart drugs" field, scientists at Harvard University have successfully ...

Scientists from the École Polytenchnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), with the aid of colleagues  from the Salk Institute for Biological ...

Scientists at London's Imperial College have successfully managed to create biological logic gates, indispensible for the production of electronical devices, ...

A few days ago I reported how researchers found a myriad of new virus strains inside raw sewage. On a ...

Well, it's pretty obvious that the rotten, insalubrious sewage environment is perfect for fostering infectious diseases and virus cultures. What's surprising however ...

The mating between Neanderthals and modern homo sapiens has been a highly controversial matter between scientists in the anthropology scene ...

In a recently patented research, UCLA geneticists have shown and demonstrated how they've accurately been able to predict a person's ...

Biological systems have recently attracted the attention of mathematicians and computer scientists, who have been turning everything from quantum processes ...

While gene-therapy is still regarded as a very innovative practice, it seems like the procedure might take traction as of ...

They came from Mars; they invaded our planet billions of years ago. But they were small, and came with rocks ...

The lead singer, rock legend bat beheader has done pretty much anything you can do in this life. He played ...

Yes ladies and gents, researchers have produced the whole genome sequence of the 3 billion "letters" (nucleotides) in the Neanderthalian ...

Researchers from the Scripps Research Institute have determined for the first time that prions, which are just bits of infectious ...

It's quite obvious that genetics is the most important step in our evolution that we have to take and although ...

    British scientists have received the green light to research devastating diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s using human-animal ...