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Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps share 98.8% of their DNA. But is this actually true? And what does "similar ...

Our free DNA Reverse Complement tool is an indispensable utility for researchers, students, and technicians in molecular biology and genomics. Whether you’re designing PCR primers, verifying ...

We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of ...

Rubins' last day was on Monday (July 28). NASA astronaut Kathleen "Kate" Rubins has retired from the space agency after 16 years, two missions on the International Space Station, four spacewalks and ...

Genetic features known as transposons make up a large portion of many mammalian genomes, including humans', and they are now known to play a variety of roles. Some transposable elements (TEs) could be ...

For decades, scientists regarded large portions of our DNA as genetic junk – useless remnants of ancient viruses that invaded our ancestors’ genomes. These segments, known as transposable elements ...

The puzzle seems impossible: take a three-billion-letter code and predict what happens if you swap a single letter. The code we’re talking about—the human genome—stores most of its instructions in ...

Marketing geniuses at Liquid Death, a brand of canned water, had rocker Ozzy Osbourne autograph and drink 10 cans of their iced tea. The empty cans, which are purported to contain trace amounts of DNA ...

Vast swathes of the human genome remain a mystery to science. A new AI from Google DeepMind is helping researchers understand how these stretches of DNA impact the activity of other genes. While the ...