Each of these things — along with every other organism on Earth — contains the molecular instructions for life, called deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA. Encoded within this DNA are the directions ...

Each of us has enough DNA to reach from here to the sun and back, more than 300 times. How is all of that DNA packaged so tightly into chromosomes and squeezed into a tiny nucleus? Histones are a ...

We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has received a three-year, $2,999,998 million grant from NASA to identify and ...

NASA claims that the likelihood of extraterrestrial life has increased following the discovery of DNA components on an asteroid. NASA conducted an asteroid probe and discovered an ancient ...

But James Watson and Francis Crick's claim was a valid one, for they had in fact discovered the structure of DNA, the chemical that encodes instructions for building and replicating almost all ...

DNA is the molecule that holds the instructions for all living things. DNA achieves this feat of storing, coding and transferring biological information though its unique structure. Replication of ...

All five nucleobases that make up DNA and RNA have now been detected in meteorite samples, according to a study published yesterday (April 26) in Nature Communications. The work used recently ...