MANHATTAN (CN) — Although DNA testing gave less than one-in-a-trillion odds that police collared the wrong gun suspect, it was "science fiction" for prosecutors to try to admit this evidence without testimony from the analyst who conducted it, New …

LINP1 enhances the repair of DNA breaks by serving as a scaffold that links two other proteins in the repair machinery. Credit: The lab of Lin Zhang, MD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. The discovery of long non-coding RNA …

I recently heard fascinating and synergistic “innovation stories” from the CEOs of two biotech companies. One organization, Arzeda, uses computers to design genes for enzymes and pathways involving multiple enzymes. The other, Gen9, specializes in …

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York's highest court says DNA evidence presented by prosecutors must be accompanied at trial by at least one analyst involved in the critical stages of its processing or who independently analyzed the raw data. The Court of …

A Spanish bullfighter has won a key stage in his battle to get his celebrated bullfighting father to recognise him as his son. Manuel Benitez, 79, says Manuel Diaz, 47, is not his offspring. But a DNA paternity test has come back 99.9% positive, a …

world's smallest thermometer DNA nanothermometer Researchers from the University of Montreal were able to create a microscopic thermometer using strands of DNA. It will be used to monitor what happens inside the human body at a cellular level.

The four building blocks (or bases) of DNA—A, C, G, and T—each change the current through the nanopore in different ways. By measuring that current, you can decipher the sequence of a DNA strand as it threads through the pore like a piece of ticker-tape.

Like computers, DNA molecules encode information into discrete units. DNA is made up of four of these, called nucelotides and referred to as A, C, G and T, rather than zeroes and ones. Long strands of DNA are made up of a sequence of these, with a …

Microsoft is exploring the oldest living thing in the world as a way of storing information and avoiding a forthcoming data apocalypse. It hopes that using the highly-efficient and long-lasting molecule will allow it to keep pace with the growth of …

A review of more than 14,000 criminal convictions across Minnesota using new DNA technology did not reveal a single wrongful conviction. Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman, whose office revealed the results Wednesday, led the federally funded …