I recently sent off a tube of saliva containing enough of my DNA for one of those companies to tell me about my ancestry. I thought I knew my ancestry pretty well and it turns out that I did. The only ...

DNA Repair Pathways in Clinical Practice: Lessons From Pediatric Cancer Susceptibility Syndromes. If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation ...

Researchers have developed a software model that can infer population history from modern DNA. When Charles Darwin first sketched how species evolved by natural selection, he drew what looked like a ...

First, the 16 middle and high school students mashed their strawberries into a pulp. Then, they mixed in some shampoo, counting on the soap to break down the plant’s cellular walls. Then, they ...

When you get a DNA test kit, you'll get a set of instructions to follow so you can get a sample of DNA from your body to the lab. You'll either be asked to spit into a tube or wipe a swab around ...

A group of Cholla High School freshmen got pretty personal Wednesday as part of a biology lesson on DNA and prospective science-related careers. The lesson — put on by University of Arizona students ...

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 ...