"Complex chemical processes are essential for making DNA." This long-held assumption in the field of biotechnology has been ...

Researchers from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at NUS have developed a new method that allows ...

Researchers have spent decades—and billions of dollars—sequencing animal and crop genomes, but fungi have historically been the forgotten middle child of genomics, only noticed when they're ruining ...

What do you call an organism with no evolutionary ancestors? SpudCell, apparently ...

If you are anything like us, whenever you plan a journey, you spend a remarkable amount of time thinking about the start and ...

Damaged DNA can escape from one human cell and infiltrate another. Like prisoners tunneling out of jail, this DNA travels via tubelike structures between neighboring cells, scientists report May 19 in ...

Humans are closely related to chimpanzees and bonobos, but what are the key factors that make humans genetically different? A new study looks at the process of DNA methylation, in which chemical tags ...

Preston Middle School won its 15th overall Science Olympiad state championship. Poudre School District teams secured six of the top 10 spots in the middle school division. Fossil Ridge High School's ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Remember when Japan sent a spacecraft to an asteroid 180 million miles away to scoop some dirt off the surface? Six years on from its arrival ...

For the second consecutive year, a team from Great Neck South Middle School earned first place at the Regional Middle School Science Bowl and will advance to the National Science Bowl in Washington, D ...

In a way, sequencing DNA is very simple: There's a molecule, you look at it, and you write down what you find. You'd think it would be easy—and, for any one letter in the sequence, it is. The problem ...