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A DNA-Organizing Protein Offers New Insight into Infertility, IVF and Generational Health

by Douglas Fox
May 19, 2026

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Computational Model Uses Language Theory to Predict DNA Shapes That Underlie Gene Expression and Disease

by Greg Watry
October 03, 2025

A man in a dark blue labcoat sits in front of a large microscope looking up towards the camera.

Landmark Discovery Reveals How Chromosomes Are Passed From One Generation to the Next

by Douglas Fox
September 24, 2025

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Finding Human Brain Genes in Duplicated DNA

by Andy Fell
July 21, 2025

Close up view of pistachios growing in a cluster on a tree. Researchers have generated the most comprehensive genome sequence of the pistachio, allowing plant breeders to create better varieties. (Bárbara Blanco-Ulate / UC Davis)

Cracking the Code of Pistachio Genetics

by Amy Quinton
March 20, 2025

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3D Genome Structure Guides Sperm Development

by Douglas Fox
March 03, 2025

Single-protein Images Show How E. coli Repairs DNA While Replicating It

by Andy Fell
September 22, 2022

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New Human Reference Genome Opens Unexplored Regions

by Andy Fell
March 31, 2022

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Study Challenges Evolutionary Theory That DNA Mutations Are Random

by Emily C. Dooley
January 12, 2022

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Denisovans or Homo Sapiens: Who Were the First to Settle (Permanently) on the Tibetan Plateau?

by Kathleen Holder
December 07, 2021

Society, Arts & Culture

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Detection Dogs and DNA on the Trail of Endangered Lizards

by Kat Kerlin
October 30, 2019

Hobbyist DNA Services May Be Open to Genetic Hacking

by Andy Fell
October 22, 2019

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Dark Centers of Chromosomes Reveal Ancient DNA

by Andy Fell
June 18, 2019

Programmable self-assembling DNA

Computer Scientists Create Programmable Self-Assembling DNA

by Andy Fell
March 20, 2019

Earth BioGenome Project to Sequence All Life

by Greg Watry
January 23, 2018

Knotty Problems in DNA

by Andy Fell
October 04, 2017

Science & Technology

Woman sampling for fish

Study Reveals Evolutionary History of Imperiled Salmon Stocks

by Kat Kerlin
August 16, 2017

Close-Up View of DNA Replication Yields Surprises

by Andy Fell
June 15, 2017

Rebecca Calisi is using pigeons to study differences between the sexes.

Pigeon Study Takes on Sexism in Science

by Andy Fell
April 18, 2017

Human and Neanderthal skulls

The Fate of Neanderthal Genes

by Andy Fell
November 08, 2016

Essential Mouse Genes Could Guide Human Precision Medicine

by Andy Fell
September 14, 2016

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English Bulldog’s Gene Pool May Be Too Small to Heal the Breed

by Pat Bailey
July 28, 2016

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Key to Regulating Cell’s Powerhouse Discovered

by Andy Fell
July 14, 2016

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