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For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...

There's a theory that humans share 50% of our DNA with bananas. But is it really that crazy of a theory? Humans share similar DNA sequences with many different species including fruits and veggies ...

When Steve Edsel was a boy, his adoptive parents kept a scrapbook of newspaper clippings in their bedroom closet. He would ask for it sometimes, poring over the headlines about his birth. Headlines ...

Kimberly Dawn Neumann is a New York City-based magazine and book writer whose work has appeared in a wide variety of publications, including Women’s Health, Health, Cosmopolitan, Fitness, Prevention, ...

DNA is the darling of the high-tech detective world, whether it’s used to solve murders or track what animals are nearby. But what about it’s less famous relative, RNA? It turns out, this type of ...

There is so much happening in the field of DNA synthesis these days that it can be hard to keep up. Just a few weeks ago, synthetic biology startup Molecular Assemblies announced that they are ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The news came four years ago, at the end of a casual phone call. Bill’s family had always thought it was a ...

It may be that our very DNA inherited its twist from the underlying handedness of reality. The molecular basis of all life is mysteriously asymmetric, only using molecules on one side of what should ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Testimony Wednesday was all about DNA evidence in the cold case murder trial of Timothy Williams, who is accused of killing a 14-year-old girl on Thanksgiving in 1984. More witnesses ...