Music fans can now create a DNA chart with their favourite artists on Spotify and here’s how to do it. Spotify users on TikTok are sharing their own music DNA charts and they’ve even posted tutorials ...

In 1953 James Watson and Francis Crick published the molecular structure of the biological hereditary material deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) whose famous double-helical structure is now imprinted in the ...

On May 27, 1961, Heinrich Matthaei, a postdoc working with NIH scientist Marshal Nirenberg, placed synthetic polyuracil RNA into 20 test tubes to see what it would produce. Each tube contained ...

Second DNA code While we all know DNA instructs our cells how to make proteins, scientists have now discovered a second DNA code that suggests the body uses the same alphabet to speak two different ...

Personalised genetic testing is gaining popularity, but the area is poorly regulated - what do consumers need to know? Claire O'Connellfinds the answers IT'S THE ultimate in techie navel-gazing - ...

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 active ...

Chromosomes are long strands of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). A gene is a short length of DNA found on a chromosome that codes for a particular characteristic or protein. Alleles are different forms of ...

Ancestry DNA is designed to offer users more information on their ancestral roots, with a combination of advanced technology and the world's largest online family history resource. The genetic test ...

The Federal Trade Commission is challenging DNA sequencing giant Illumina’s proposed $1.2 billion purchase of rival Pacific Biosciences, alleging the acquisition would eliminate “a nascent competitive ...

Bacteria contain symmetry in their DNA signals that enable them to be read either forwards or backwards, according to new findings which challenge existing knowledge about gene transcription. Bacteria ...