Exploration means looking around, observing, describing and mapping undiscovered territory, not testing theories or models. The goal is to discover things we neither knew or expected, and to see ...

DNA nanotechnology is a branch of nanotechnology concerned with the design, study and application of synthetic structures based on DNA. DNA nanotechnology takes advantage of the physical and chemical ...

My relatives didn’t get a vote when I added my genetic profile to a crime-fighting database. Last year, I added my DNA profile to a private genealogical database, FamilyTreeDNA, and clicked “Yes” to ...

The genes of great white sharks defy scientific explanation. An animal's genome can be deeply revealing, but ever since researchers started decoding great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) DNA more ...

The human genome holds about three billion base pairs within each cell. Although tools like Crispr have revolutionized the editing of single genes and individual nucleic acid bases, researchers have ...