Work has begun on a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life from scratch, in what is believed to be a world first. The research has been taboo until now because of concerns ...

A closeup look at colibactin’s structure reveals chemical motifs that guide its mutation-wreaking “warheads” to specific stretches of DNA.

But when the draft instruction book was first published, independently by an international collective of academic and government labs called the Human Genome Project and the private company Celera ...

An international research team has identified a human protein, ANKLE1, as the first DNA-cutting enzyme (nuclease) in mammals ...

Inside every human cell, six feet of DNA folds into a nucleus that is only a few micrometers wide, yet still manages to ...

This volume offers recommendations for handling DNA samples, performing calculations, and other aspects of using DNA as a forensic tool. It addresses two major areas - determination of DNA profiles ...

LUANA: WELCOME BACK TONIGHT. IT’S SCIENCE THAT’S GENERATED SPECTACULAR HEADLINES. DNA SOLVES COLD CASE, DNA PROVES WRONG PEOPLE CONVICTED, DNA PROVES FAMILY IS RELATED TO ROYALTY OR ONE OF OUR ...