Watson and Crick's discovery didn't come out of the blue. As early as 1943 Oswald Avery proved what had been suspected: that DNA, a nucleic acid, carries genetic information. But no one knew how ...

PhD students Jade Van-Wijk and Mia Berelson have placed air sampling devices in Thetford Forest on the Norfolk/Suffolk border Scientists sampling DNA in the air to monitor the spread of deadly ...

Human DNA was prominent in both settings. Air samples were found to contain more recent DNA traces, but it could also be detected on the surfaces of the air conditioning units. Researchers ...

Thorin — nicknamed after a dwarf in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" — is also called the "last Neanderthal" because he may ...

DNA is essentially a storage molecule ... called introns, are clipped out of the mRNA strand. This process "tidies up" the molecule and removes nucleotides that are not involved in protein ...

This fluid is then concentrated and used for DNA extraction and sequencing to find out what was in the air. To prove it could ...

Researchers compared DNA extracted from Neolithic human remains ... massive expansion of people out of Anatolia in 6,000BC that introduced farming to Europe. Before that, Europe was populated ...

An article by UAB professor Joan-Ramon Daban analyzes in depth the physical problems associated with DNA packaging that have ...

In these early electron micrographs, the DNA molecules appear as "trunks," with many RNA "branches" extending out from them. When DNAse and RNAse (enzymes that degrade DNA and RNA, respectively ...

A new study finds that mitochondria in our brain cells frequently fling their DNA into the cells' nucleus, where the mitochondrial DNA integrates into chromosomes, possibly causing harm.

Jax comes from a family of adrenaline junkies. He says it's helped him thrive in high-leverage spots as he's developed into a ...

A new article analyzes in depth the physical problems associated with DNA packaging that have often been neglected in structural models of chromosomes. The study demonstrates that the multilaminar ...