DNA News Stories

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have shown for the first time that animal DNA shed within the environment can be collected from the […]

Coronavirus affects people differently – some infected develop life-threatening disease, while others remain asymptomatic. And a year after COVID-19 emerged, […]

We shed DNA everywhere. That includes the air, according to a new study.

We leave DNA all over the place, including in the air, and for the first time, rese […]

Quantum mechanics, which rules the world of the teensy-tiny, may help explain why genetic mutations spontaneously crop up in DNA as it makes copies of itself, […]

A study by researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) is challenging traditional practices for validating DNA sequencing results. The […]

In the early 1950s, the identity of genetic material was still a matter of debate. The discovery of the helical structure of double-stranded DNA settled the ma […]

When talking about DNA and how people inherit different traits, you’ll probably come across the term recombination—a critical process in human genetic […]

DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid is the molecule that codes genetic make-up. Here are 20 interesting and fun facts about DNA:

The genetic code in DNA consists o […]

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms and […]