Every living cell must interpret its genetic code—a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions. A ...

Every living cell must interpret its genetic code - a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions.

Credit: Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/ What is DNA, and how does it work? You don't need a degree in genetics to understand. Here, we'll give an overview of DNA and answer questions ...

Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...

Nucleotide sequences (nearest-neighbor analysis). The strongest evidence that the newly synthesized DNA is a faithful copy of the nucleotide sequence of the original priming DNA has come from the ...

Nucleotides: DNA is composed of four types of nucleotide building blocks – adenine (A), thymine (T), guanine (G), and cytosine (C).Each nucleotide consists of a phosphate group, a sugar group ...

DNA has tremendous potential as a data storage medium, but the process of synthesizing DNA from scratch is time-consuming. It has to be done one nucleotide at a time in a specific sequence. New ...

Researchers from the Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich, have now reported on a study that has for the first time mapped the effects of BaP exposure on lung cells, down to ...

Their model, called Difface, applies single DNA nucleotide differences to 3D facial point clouds, or sets of data points that represent the exterior surface of a face.

Neandertal DNA may affect the color of our skin and hair, how readily our blood clots, our propensity for heart disease, and how our cells respond to various environmental stressors such as radiation.