Stepping away from its billions-of-years-old role as a genetic blueprint, DNA is now embarking on a new journey as an active ...

Scientists in Bahrain are building the country’s first DNA reference library for sharks and rays using fish market samples, ...

Some of your most important life partners are the mitochondria that power all your cells. You and these little cellular ...

In 1980, a landmark paper described restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), a method predateding high volume DNA sequencing, that could be used to identify disease-causing genes. Ray ...

They were hardly modest, these two brash young scientists who in 1953 declared to patrons of the Eagle Pub in Cambridge, England, that they had "found the secret of life." But James Watson and Francis ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have caught DNA-copying enzymes generating long stretches of genetic code without ...

DNA, long known as the molecule that carries genetic information, is taking on a new role in science. Researchers now see it ...