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The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

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

Cell and gene therapies are the engine powering the future of medicine. They hold the promise of treating many diseases that currently elude researchers and clinicians — including cancer, cystic ...

When Steve Edsel was a boy, his adoptive parents kept a scrapbook of newspaper clippings in their bedroom closet. He would ask for it sometimes, poring over the headlines about his birth. Headlines ...

“The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we conceived of life itself. The X-ray crystallography by Rosalind Franklin ...

For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...

Curiosity is one of the top reasons people try at-home DNA test kits, but that's balanced by worries over who has access to such private info, a PrivacyHQ study finds ...

A woman expecting her first child got thinking about DNA, and sparked major debate with one simple question. Brianna Donovan, 28 and from Boston, Massachusetts, took to her TikTok account ...

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The District Attorney for the 18th Judicial District, which includes both Arapahoe and Douglas counties, sent a letter last week to dozens of prison inmates about potential issues with DNA evidence in ...