DNA News Stories

With a smartphone, you can look up facts, stream videos, check out Facebook, read tweets and listen to music. But all of those data aren’t stored on your pho […]

In animals on a fatty diet, this DNA tweaking left them slimmer and healthier

People are among mammals that have “bad” fat and “good” fat. Too much […]

As the master blueprint for building humans turns 20, researchers are both celebrating the landmark achievement and looking for ways to bolster its shortcoming […]

Cosmetic treatments: 

Hair is a robust sample for testing drugs and alcohol and has 3 morphological regions; the cuticle, cortex and medulla. The cutic […]

If you thought flash drives were small, wait until you see this: Researchers have encoded the data to make a short video into the DNA molecules of bacteria. Th […]

Genetic engineering may be a big part of our future on Mars.

If humanity is ever going to settle down on Mars, we may need to become a little less human.

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DNA replication errors during cell division cause monozygotic twins to diverge from each other even during the earliest stages of development, a new study find […]

Autopsy studies have yet to find clear evidence of destructive viral invasion into patients’ brains, pushing researchers to consider alternative explanations […]

When humans’ genetic information (known as the genome) was mapped 15 years ago, it promised to change the world. Optimists anticipated an era in which all ge […]

Long before Moderna’s and Pfizer’s COVID-19 shots, scientists had been considering the use of genetically encoded vaccines in the fight against infectious […]