The dates for the case files stretch back in time — sometimes for decades. Their faces are an artist's rendering of what they likely looked like. All of them are children who were found dead in ...

Not too long ago, I spent about $170 on a genetic test to resolve a nagging question about my great-grandparents on my father’s side: Were they first cousins? My grandmother had mentioned this ...

If you want to print something a few inches tall, extruded plastic is a good medium. But when you need something at the nanometer scale, DNA is a better bet — but who has the time to design and ...

Olivier Noel pitched DNA Simple, a new way to support cutting-edge medical research, on a recent episode of ABC’s Shark Tank. After the show, Brandon Andrews sat down with Noel for an interview about ...

It’s a sign that we’re living in the future when using our own genetic machinery as a form of calculator or storage is nothing new — but make no mistake, it’s still very early days in this field and ...

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Brunker is a member of the San Diego Union-Tribune’s community advisory board. He is the principal at michaelbrunker.net and a former YMCA executive director and former basketball coach at San Diego ...

It is possible to classify images simply by analysing the way that trillions of DNA molecules in a test tube connect together into different shapes. Conventional computers must be fully assembled ...

La Jolla, CA, June 11, 2009 -A team of Scripps Research scientists has created a new analog to DNA that assembles and disassembles itself without the need for enzymes. Because the new system comprises ...

Whether revealing a perpetrator with DNA evidence, diagnosing a pathogen, classifying a paleontological discovery, or determining paternity, the duplication of nucleic acids (amplification) is ...

Inside every cell, there is a tiny yet powerful timekeeper that keeps track, known as the biological clock. This internal mechanism doesn't count years; it calculates just how properly the body ...

Production of endonucleolytic double-strand DNA breaks requires separate strand cleavage events. Although catalytic mechanisms for simple, dimeric endonucleases are known, there are many complex ...