The new technique is called CLASSIC, an acronym for “combining long and short range sequencing to investigate genetic ...

New collaboration empowers customers with sequence-perfect constructs as long as 50 kb Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), a Danaher company and a global leader in genomics, and Ansa Biotechnologies, ...

Scientists have successfully created DNA with more than four base pairs—and it works. This video explains how and why that ...

A stretch of viral DNA in the mouse genome gives cells in early-stage embryos the potential to become almost any cell type in ...

But some Neanderthal DNA helped modern humans survive and reproduce, and thus it has lingered in our genomes. Nowadays, ...

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Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.