It’s a story UC Santa Cruz Research Professor David Deamer has told many times before: in 1989, while driving along a forested road in Oregon on his way to visit family, an idea struck him. Like many ...

SAN CARLOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elegen, a leader in DNA innovation, today announced the expedited delivery of high-complexity DNA sequences longer than 15,000 base pairs to members of their ...

The building block of life is often heralded as the cornerstone of a new generation of electronic devices and computers, but the electronic properties of DNA remain highly controversial. 1 Back to ...

The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...

A team of experts in ancient DNA from McMaster University (Canada) and genome researchers from Penn State University (USA) have obtained the first genomic sequences from a woolly mammoth, a mammal ...

NASA is not often known for making the best use of existing COTS (commercial off the shelf technology) aboard the ISS. Then again, sometimes they are. This is an example of when the agency really ...