Researchers in McGill's Department of Physics have developed a new device that can trap and study DNA molecules without touching or damaging them. The device, which uses carefully tuned electric ...

Through DNA origami, oligonucleotides form complex nanostructures, driving advancements in nanotechnology and offering ...

Companies that make DNA for science labs screen out any requests for dangerous bits of genetic material. But a new study ...

Human fertility hinges on a delicate molecular ballet that begins even before birth. UC Davis researchers have uncovered how special protein networks safeguard chromosomes as eggs and sperm form, ...

When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things — including a crucial event that happened ...

Sept. 10 (UPI) --Google is celebrating the start of the 2025-26 school year with a DNA-themed Doodle on Wednesday. This Back to School Doodle looks at deoxyribonucleic acid, also known as DNA, "a ...

DNA aptamers are powerful molecular tools in biosensing, bioimaging and therapeutics. However, a limited understanding of their tertiary structures and binding mechanisms hinders their further ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists are trying to sequence the DNA of Leonardo da Vinci to identify if the remains at his interment site really are his. The project began ...

That's a huge challenge when trying to understand our evolutionary history more deeply: Two-legged primates emerged 7 million years ago in Africa, and our genus showed up around 2.6 million years ago.

DNA evidence led to the arrest of Jesse Lee Castillo in the 1997 Pelayo case. Castillo and the late Jose Luis Silva were linked to the crime by recovered DNA. Franklin County deputies arrested ...

One person’s junk is another’s treasure. An international team of scientists have found that strings of “junk” DNA in the human genome that were previously written off as having no useful function are ...