News listened to investigators who have put this new technology to use -- submitting cigarette butts left behind at a ...

Cornell researchers have found that a new DNA sequencing technology can be used to study how transposons move within and bind ...

Cancer research, drug safety testing and aging biology may all gain a major boost from a new fluorescent sensor developed at ...

Multicellular organisms (animals, plants, humans) all have the ability to methylate the cytosine base in their DNA. This ...

If someone is arrested for one crime and their DNA matches the evidence from another, the justice process begins for the ...

Researchers from Karolinska Institutet have discovered how mammalian cells prevent the gradual buildup of harmful mutations ...

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL–Imagine information stored on something only a hundredth the size of the next generation computer chip–and made from nature’s own storage molecule, DNA. A team led by Richard ...

In most cases, this manifested as reduced DNA methylation activity. As this process plays a key role in a number of ...

Since the advent of DNA testing, law enforcement agencies have been able to prosecute crimes — and exonerate the wrongly convicted — with greater certainty than ever before. Though not perfect, ...