DNA and Science

Stated Clearly Published on Aug 30, 2012 Issues of genetics and DNA are constantly cropping up in the news from food production and health, to ... (2019)

CrashCourse Published on Mar 26, 2012 Hank and his brother John discuss heredity via the gross example of relative ear wax moistness. Crash Co... (2019)

Designer babies, the end of diseases, genetically modified humans that never age. Outrageous things that used to be science fiction are suddenly be... (2019)

Synthetic DNA seems to behave like the natural variety, suggesting that chemicals beyond nature’s four familiar bases could support life on Earth. (2019)

Extending the genetic code THE FUZZY specks growing on discs of jelly in Floyd Romesberg’s lab at Scripps Research in La Jolla look much like an... (2019)

Nobody knows what the first animal looked like. But many of its genes are still present in humans today... (2018)

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University are arguing that we need to rethink one of the major tools we use to analyze human genomes. In a recent Natu... (2018)

Carl Zimmer’s sprawling new book, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh, forces readers to reconsider what they think they know about genetics and heredity. (2018)

The virus injects a tiny but remarkably complex strand of RNA into infected cells. A virus is “simply a piece of bad news wrapped up in protein... (2020)

Chemical properties offer an answer to why nature limits itself to so few protein building blocks (2019)

The discovery of the DNA duplex. In the early 1950s, the identity of genetic material was still a matter of debate. The discovery of the helical... (2019)

Welcome! In this post, we’ll be taking a character-by-character look at the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine. I want t... (2020)