What do a human, a rose, and a bacterium have in common? Each of these things — along with every other organism on Earth — contains the molecular instructions for life, called deoxyribonucleic ...

During the early years of Levene's career, neither Levene nor any other scientist of the time knew how the individual nucleotide components of DNA were arranged in space; discovery of the sugar ...

Could asteroid grains be at the origin of the first building blocks of life on Earth? This is what recent discoveries from ...

Adenine and guanine, the two most common purines in DNA and RNA, share this core structure, which is crucial for forming the base pairs in nucleic acids. (Image: Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain) ...

Scientists based at The University of Manchester have conducted an ethical analysis of the medical use of artificial human ...

Unlike traditional methods, this technique does not require de novo DNA synthesis (assembling the molecule's components one by one), making the process faster and less expensive. One of the major ...

Scientists developed MEDI, a method to estimate dietary intake from food DNA in human stool, offering a more accurate ...