Researchers at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD) have announced that they can make specific sequences of DNA light up beneath a microscope by using quantum dots, two biological probes, and a ...

Ancient DNA is turning human evolution into a crime scene reconstruction, and one of the prime suspects is a herpesvirus that ...

Some Y-chromosome DNA sequences from the “Holy Child” artwork and from a letter penned by one of Leonardo’s cousins appear to ...

A research team led by Zhiping Weng, Ph.D., and Jill Moore, Ph.D."18, at UMass Chan Medical School, has nearly tripled the ...

The human genome has to be carefully organized so it will fit inside of the nuclei of cells, while also remaining accessible ...

A large genetic study shows that many people carry DNA sequences that slowly expand as they get older. Common genetic ...

Scientists at Rice University have unveiled a breakthrough technique that could fundamentally change how DNA is designed for ...

Researchers suggest that they have recovered sequences from ancient works and from letters that may belong to the Renaissance ...

The new technique is called CLASSIC, an acronym for “combining long and short range sequencing to investigate genetic ...

An analysis of genetic data from over 900,000 people shows that certain stretches of DNA, made up of short sequences repeated ...

In a first, scientists have extracted DNA from a Renaissance-era drawing attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, but they can't be ...