Scientists have been making robots out of DNA for years partly because the molecule’s properties are understood well-enough that they can be harnessed in different ways.

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists proposed a long-term project Thursday that involves creating DNA blueprints for making human beings, a prospect some observers find troubling. The researchers said ...

The smaller chemicals that make DNA are written in a four-letter alphabet – A, G, C and T. Segments of these letters are called genes, which are spread across 23 pairs of wormlike chromosomes.

DNA and RNA molecules are the basis for all life on Earth, but they don’t necessarily have to be the basis for all life everywhere, scientists have shown. Researchers at the Medical Research ...

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, ... It’s long worked on building all of the DNA for a yeast, making steady progress. In 2011, ...

The idea of a science poster is simple. Get some poster-making materials and then slap on a title, the experimental methods and the results.

Saturn's moon Titan has many of the components for life – but no liquid water. A new study shows how the moon's atmosphere might be producing the molecules that make up DNA anyway.

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