DNA

DNA origami, the groundbreaking technique of creating complex nanostructures using long, single-stranded DNA scaffold strands and shorter oligonucleotide staple strands, has emerged as a powerful tool for nanoscale engineering. The ability…

More than 8 billion people are alive on Earth today. The more our population increases, the more strain we put on our resources. Scientists are looking at insect protein as an integral part of feeding our future world. In fact, the insect…

DNA can mutate. Researchers at the University of Surrey say this could be due to strange rules of quantum mechanics. Typically, DNA bases follow strict bonding rules based on shape. If the bonds change slightly, wrong bases can link—and…

Alessandro Vezzosi and Agnese Sabato have spent 10 years advancing a project researching Leonardo da Vinci's DNA. Their study, published in "Human Evolution" (Pontecorboli Editore, Florence), documents with new certainty the continuous male…

It’s possible that when an internal biological clock is aligned with the external environment, it can actually protect organisms from viruses and ensure processes like DNA uptake occur when they should. Research on circadian rhythms, our…