Researchers in Japan have identified a striking new way immune cells strip DNA out of dying neighbors, a process they call ...

To obtain high-quality, purified nucleic acids, scientists can use several different methods, including phenol-chloroform extraction, cesium chloride/ethidium bromide (CsCl/EtBr) gradient ...

Cells were long believed to safeguard nuclear contents, releasing them only during cell death. Extracellular DNA was thought ...

When you think about scientific research, you probably envision a sterile room that houses gleaming beakers, rows of pipettes and centrifuges. But what if you could house a lab on a chip? Call it the ...

A glowing, digital double helix represents the billions of base pairs scientists analyze when sequencing ancient DNA. In 1976, workers excavating a tunnel for the Toronto subway system came across ...

In 2022, researchers shared that they had uncovered an ancient ecosystem from sediments in the Kap København Formation in Greenland (Nature 2022, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05453-y). By sequencing DNA ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Daniel Urban shows ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander how to extract DNA from a strawberry In this video, we demonstrate how to ...

We all know that DNA is pretty amazing, but it's not something that most of us get much hands-on experience with. Even though it's in every living thing around us, we never see it, so we rarely think ...

Call it the science of small, but a trio of University of Florida chemical engineers have developed a lab-on-a-chip process ...