As people grow older, their immune systems do not simply slow down, they often become locked into a simmering, ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

With a storage capacity of 36 petabytes, a DNA-based cassette tape can hold every song every recorded, and it could be on the ...

One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published ...

Arthur Kornberg compared DNA to a tape recording of instructions that can be copied over and over. How do cells make these near-perfect copies, and does the process ever vary? In reality, the process ...

In the last decade, the drive to understand who we are and where we've come from has been accelerated by DNA testing.

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a molecule that encodes an organism's genetic blueprint. In other words, DNA contains all of the information required to build and maintain an organism. DNA was ...

DNA polymerases are enzymes that create DNA molecules by assembling nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA. These enzymes are essential to DNA replication and usually work in pairs to create two ...

The answer as to whether a DNA test can tell you your ethnic identity? Yes — and no. We know that, when it comes to DNA, geography matters. Although in principle anyone can mate with anyone else, in ...

Justin Jaffe is the Managing Editor for CNET Money. He has more than 20 years of experience publishing books, articles and research on finance and technology for Wired, IDC and others. He is the ...

As these DNA test stories show, you truly never know what you’ll find in your family tree! It could be a surprising lineage—or a dark family secret. Every day, DNA test results tell people way more ...

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