DNA, the biomolecule that provides the blueprint for life, has a lesser-known identity as a stretchy polymer. Scientists have found a flaw in the most common model for DNA elasticity, a discovery ...

Tracking down old DNA, LA Innocence Project frees the wrongly imprisoned Director Paula Mitchell says more than 200 prisoners, doing 1,300 years behind bars, were freed by efforts like theirs ...

The Human Genome Project was a massive undertaking that took more than a decade and billions of dollars to complete. For it, scientists collected DNA samples from anonymous volunteers who were ...

First, the researchers synthesized the origami “paper,” a self-assembling DNA scaffold about 240 nm to a side, built from four monomeric tiles.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD)- South Carolina residents will now have access to free genetic testing thanks to the expansion of a DNA research project at the Medical University of South Carolina. The &#8… ...

Eight papers from the project are featured this week’s issue of Nature, and 16 others are published this week in other Nature journals.

The Human Genome Project, which began in the 1990s, was Homo sapiens’ successful attempt to map out the entirety of our species’ DNA. It produced the human reference genome, a finely polished ...

Scientists are warning that a project aiming to build human DNA from scratch could lead to new types of warfare and is a controversial move of 'playing God.' ...