Historically, the vast majority of pharmaceutical drugs have been meticulously designed down to the atomic level. The ...

To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...

A scientific revolution is underway as researchers push to bring atomic-level precision, once reserved for small molecule ...

Cutting-edge DNA mapping technology has identified new genetic information that can help researchers decipher more genetic ...

Certain DNA sequences can form structures other than the canonical double helix. These alternative DNA conformations—referred ...

Ingrida Domarkienė, a geneticist at Vilnius University in Lithuania, discusses the exciting developments made possible by ...

One of the challenges of fighting pancreatic cancer is finding ways to penetrate the organ's dense tissue to define the ...

From soft actuators that mimic real muscle to DNA drives that can store petabytes in a sugar cube, humanity is engineering ...

The Old Crow mammoth's DNA was in the oldest group of samples in the analysis, described as "deep-time DNA," but it wasn't the oldest. The oldest DNA, from Russia, was around 1.3 million years old.

When the mechanisms that replicate or repair mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) fail ... A different, more optimized version of the molecule, called PX578, has been advanced to the clinic.

Automated pipette tubes use magnetic beads to attach to negative portions of a DNA molecule, binding and washing away impurities and providing a clean sample to work from. That sample then makes ...

In October 2023, the Pierce County Sheriff's Office submitted forensic evidence from the remains to Othram to see if advanced DNA testing could make an identification. Othram scientists developed ...