Through the technique of DNA sequencing, first developed by Frederick Sanger, scientists can determine the exact order of nucleotides in an organism’s genes. Knowing this order is the first step in ...

Fluorogenic DNA aptamers produce light only in the correct structural state, enabling programmable molecular logic, ...

Researchers have devised a nanoscale sensor to electronically read the sequence of a single DNA molecule, a technique that is fast and inexpensive and could make DNA sequencing widely available. The ...

As with most things, nature’s data storage system, DNA, far surpasses anything we’ve created. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have doubled its already incredible ...

Physicists from the University of Basel have developed a new method to examine the elasticity and binding properties of DNA molecules on a surface at extremely low temperatures. With a combination of ...

What looks like a kaleidoscope of glowing ice cream sprinkles or a cross between a nebula and a 1980s dance party is actually something even more astonishing: an unfettered and detailed view of the ...

Previous research has shown that in space, DNA suffers a higher rate of mutation – for example, substitutions of single nucleotides, crosslinks, inversions, or deletions – due to damage from cosmic ...