Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human ...

Companies that make DNA for science labs screen out any requests for dangerous bits of genetic material. But a new study ...

Chemists at Université de Montréal have developed "signaling cascades" made with DNA molecules to report and quantify the ...

It may be that our very DNA inherited its twist from the underlying handedness of reality. The molecular basis of all life is mysteriously asymmetric, only using molecules on one side of what should ...

This came up in a front page discussion recently, and I promised I'd do a bit of a brain dump. The motivation: people often talk about whether we're regulating the risks posed by exposure to radiation ...

saying the program was never intended to collect and permanently retain the DNA of all noncitizens, warning the children are ...