The Earth BioGenome Project seeks to genetically profile over a million plants, animals, and fungi as they build an atlas of ...

Turtle DNA may hold clues that advance human medical science, Iowa State University researchers told the school's news ...

In 1985, Alec Jeffrey’s DNA fingerprinting first started being used in the courts, initially to settle immigration cases and later in the field of forensics. It helped secure the prosecution of Colin ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved for ...

Fourteen miles southeast of modern Naples lies Pompeii, a city frozen in time by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius ...

Sometimes plants are so similar to each other that the methods developed by 18th-century scientist Carl Linnaeus for ...

The actual connection between physics and molecular biology is that curvature and torsion are the most probable solutions ...

Researchers from the Mattiroli group have found that the way DNA is packaged in cells can directly impact how fast DNA itself ...

Researchers have found that the way DNA is packaged in cells can directly impact how fast DNA itself is copied during cell division. They discovered that DNA packaging sends signals through an unusual ...

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