The super powers of the X-Men may still may take a...  ...o stunning advances in sequencing and deciphering DNA in recent years, scientists had begun uncovering,...

Goethe University chemistry professor Alexander He...  ...emistry professor Alexander Heckel was working on DNA nanotechnology when he got married, so naturally...  ...st wedding rings, made from interlocking loops of DNA molecules!Prof. Alexander Heckel and his doctoral...  ...oethe University were able to crea...

Raymond Daniel Towler was imprisoned for almost 29...  ...d by eyewitness testimony in 1981, he heard about DNA testing during the OJ trial in 1995. Fifteen year...

A study of lice genes is helping scientists to pinpoint the era in history when humans began to wear clothing. Really. The key to the study by David Reed and colleagues, which appears in Molecular Biology And Evolution,...

A French-led research team has sequenced the DNA of Theobroma cacao, a tree used in making chocola...

Is schizophrenia caused by genetics or environment...  ...on from generation to generation, nestled in the DNA . “It’s a rare, random event,” says Robert B...  ...these embedded, or endogenous, retroviruses. Our DNA carries dozens of copies of Perron’s virus, now...  ...6 and 7. This virus was long thou...

A Möbius strip is a ribbon of material that h...  ...h manipulating tiny objects was able to reshape a DNA strand into a Möbius strip. The ability to cr...

Dimas Aliprandi of Joao Neiva, Brazil always wonde...  ...isters. When he was 24, he finally could afford a DNA test which proved he was not the biological child...  ...home in Joao Neiva. The Plasters agreed to do DNA tests. "They discovered that Elton was the bio...

A Duke University engineer proposes that it's...  ...er proposes that it's possible to use custom-made DNA to generate self-assembling nanostructures that c...  ...ated that by simply mixing customized snippets of DNA and other molecules, he could create literally bi...

Using ancient DNA extracted from specimens of woolly mammoths prese...  ...t beasts. The researchers converted the protein's DNA sequences into RNA and inserted it into E. coli b...  ...er, director of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA at the University of Adelaide. "Th...