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Imagine if you could "print" a tiny skyscraper using DNA instead of steel. That’s what researchers at Columbia and Brookhaven ...
FREE Webinar Wednesday, September 23, 2020 10:00 - 11:30 AM, Eastern Standard Time Register Now Scientists are using advanced DNA sequencing technologies to uncover the secrets of our world. By ...
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a molecule that encodes an organism's genetic blueprint. In other words, DNA contains all of the information required to build and maintain an organism. DNA was ...
Arthur Kornberg compared DNA to a tape recording of instructions that can be copied over and over. How do cells make these near-perfect copies, and does the process ever vary?
For Science Week we look at some of the big science lessons we’ve learnt since the 1969 moon landing and how they’ve changed the world.
“In almost half of the cases, the databases could not clearly say what we had in our hands,” said researchers studying rocks from the Atacama Desert in Chile.
Mandi Jung, a 7th grade science teacher in Highland Park Middle School in Minnesota, claimed that cell biology lessons were part of 'capitalist indoctrination.' ...
Researchers have developed a software model that can infer population history from modern DNA.
NASCAR and the National Science Teaching Association launch a new science and STEM learning curriculum for K-8 science teachers.
After his Nobel Prize–winning work on DNA, Watson went on to become a towering figure in the new science of molecular biology, first at Harvard University and then as director of Cold Spring ...
The reality is far messier than an abstract spiral staircase. Scientists are learning fascinating new things about how DNA is really shaped.