For the first time, scientists have captured the exact moment DNA begins to unravel, shedding light on a fundamental chemical process that enables DNA to serve as the blueprint for life. A recent ...

In a nutshell All modern humans share DNA from two ancient populations that split 1.5 million years ago and reunited through ...

This photograph is an example of DNA separated in a cesium chloride density gradient. Two tubes containing cesium chloride gradients are arranged vertically next to each other. The gradients have ...

A new method for mapping torsion provides insights into the ways that the genome responds to the torsion generated by RNA polymerase II.

AFLP-PCR uses many of the same steps as RFLP, SSR, and RAPD, including restriction enzyme digestion of genomic DNA, PCR, and electrophoretic separation of DNA fragments. However, this method ...

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared closely divided Monday in the case of a Texas death row inmate suing to conduct DNA testing he says will clear him of a 1998 murder. Ruben Gutierrez has been ...