Unlike "junk email" that is immediately deleted from the email box, "junk DNA" continues to exist in living creatures in nature such as bacteria, insects, and even mammals such as humans, alongside ...

DNA flows inside a cell's nucleus in a choreographed line dance, new simulations reveal. The finding is the first large-scale explanation of genetic material moving within a working cell. The dancing ...

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors have given us many things. They passed down mastery of fire for cooking and early survival ...

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 genome of an important bacteria contains far more 'junk DNA' than scientists expected -- making its genome more closely resemble that of a higher lifeform. Scientists have found something they can ...

DNA is a biological molecule that contains the instructions an organism needs to function, develop, and reproduce. It is present in all forms of life on earth and contains each organism’s genetic code ...

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When our science class videos were replaced by Science Channel programming, we gained a lot of 3-D animations and really big explosions, but we lost a bit of that old-school charm–the simple ...

A technology that uses enzymes to cut and paste together DNA sequences of interest. The recombined DNA sequences can be placed into vectors that carry the DNA into a host cell. In this host cell, the ...

Scientists have discovered a strange mystery in the DNA of great white sharks that they still cannot fully explain. To understand this, it helps to know there are two kinds of DNA in animal cells: ...