I recently sent off a tube of saliva containing enough of my DNA for one of those companies to tell me about my ancestry. I thought I knew my ancestry pretty well and it turns out that I did. The only ...

There's been plenty of great press – you might even say hype – about IBM's “DNA transistor,” a new type of gene sequencing technology that had come out of the company's labs. In 2009 Wired said the ...

DNA Repair Pathways in Clinical Practice: Lessons From Pediatric Cancer Susceptibility Syndromes. If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation ...

Researchers have developed a software model that can infer population history from modern DNA. When Charles Darwin first sketched how species evolved by natural selection, he drew what looked like a ...

First, the 16 middle and high school students mashed their strawberries into a pulp. Then, they mixed in some shampoo, counting on the soap to break down the plant’s cellular walls. Then, they ...

A group of Cholla High School freshmen got pretty personal Wednesday as part of a biology lesson on DNA and prospective science-related careers. The lesson — put on by University of Arizona students ...

DNA is essentially a storage molecule. It contains all of the instructions a cell needs to sustain itself. These instructions are found within genes, which are sections of DNA made up of specific ...

What do a human, a rose, and a bacterium have in common? Each of these things — along with every other organism on Earth — contains the molecular instructions for life, called deoxyribonucleic acid or ...