As these DNA test stories show, you truly never know what you’ll find in your family tree! It could be a surprising ...

At some point, RNA must have replicated itself before the evolutionary arrival of DNA and proteins, and now we might know how ...

Early research shows that editing expanding trinucleotide repeats halts the lengthening process that causes neurological ...

Life is thought to have begun when RNA began replicating itself, and researchers have got close to achieving this in the lab ...

DNA helped seal the fate of Michael Tyrone Lyles, who prosecutors say sexually assaulted three women between 2020 and 2021.

An onslaught of anti-trans bills has barreled toward the Maine Legislature. Anti-trans rhetoric is couched in the language of “protecting women and girls” and ensuring “fairness” in sports. The ...

"My conclusion is that the documentary never shows Columbus's DNA and, as scientists ... cite curious abnormalities in his will and interpretations of the syntax in his letters. Now, it appears his ...

The model then predicts which combination of DNA letters (nucleotide bases: A, T, C, G) are needed for the gene expression patterns required in specific types of cells. Researchers can then ...

He’s been in prison ever since. Just recently, his request to test key crime scene evidence for DNA was denied. Sadly, I wasn’t surprised. At the March 25 oral arguments at Illinois State ...

DNA is made up of four chemical “letters” - the nucleotide bases A, G, T and C. Mutations in this sequence cause thousands of human diseases, yet until recently, gene editing could only fix a ...

"If you think about your DNA, a lot of people see it as a sequence of letters. We're looking for differences in those letters. "We share most of our DNA with each other. We're looking for those ...

Well-known for his role in developing CRISPR base editing—a precision tool to swap one genetic letter for another—his lab’s tool targeted mitochondrial DNA with another method. Sign up to receive top ...