NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists are working to create yeast that operates with custom-made DNA. They have long been able to make specific changes in an organism's DNA. Now, they're pushing into the ...

Next, the researchers tested the MER11 sequences with a technique known as lentiMPRA (lentiviral massively parallel reporter assay). This method can test thousands of DNA sequences at the same ...

The complete DNA code for yeast, called its genome, contains about 12 million letters. An international scientific team aims to add, delete or alter about a million of the DNA letters.

At the heart of the case against the man accused of the Gilgo Beach killings is DNA evidence — but the novel way that ...

DNA contains foundational information needed to sustain life. Understanding how this information is stored and organized has been one of the greatest scientific challenges of the last century.

Free online courses will teach anyone DNA sequencing If you want to change the yeast in beer or splice genes in an organism, this is the intro class for you.

A DNA sequence code critical to our understanding of how human genes are turned on and off has just been unlocked by a team of scientists. Molecular biologists refer to this code as the “human ...

What scientists once dismissed as junk DNA may actually be some of the most powerful code in our genome. A new international study reveals that ancient viral DNA buried in our genes plays an ...

Converting a DNA sequence into an audio could help us learn something useful about it, like where mutations occur.

Only 1-2 % of the genome consists of genes, the sequences that code for proteins. "DNA has many functions beyond coding for proteins.