DNA sequencing is one of today's most critical scientific fields, powering leaps in humanity's understanding of genetic causes of cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and diabetes. One issue facing the ...

On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They represented fragments of a DNA molecule, and young James Watson was trying to ...

Molecular cloning relies on two key components to construct recombinant DNA: 1) a DNA vector and 2) one or more DNA fragments containing the gene(s) of interest (GOI). To produce a GOI fragment, DNA ...

What if the story of human origins isn’t as human as we think? This video explores the theory that parts of our DNA may have extraterrestrial roots — passed down from organisms that came to Earth long ...

Nahda Nabiilah is a writer and editor from Indonesia. She has always loved writing and playing games, so one day she decided to combine the two. Most of the time, writing gaming guides is a blast for ...

EMBL researchers created SDR-seq, a next-generation tool that decodes both DNA and RNA from the same cell. It finally opens access to non-coding regions, where most disease-associated genetic variants ...

A new genetic study claims alien DNA could be inserted into humans. Dr. Max Rempel, a molecular biologist with a PhD from the Institute of Gene Biology in Moscow, believes strands of non-human DNA, ...