A team led by Professor Shoichiro Asayama at Tokyo Metropolitan University has synthesized a charge-free molecule designed to sneak plasmid DNA into living cells via hydrogen bonding, dramatically boosting gene expression in living tissue.

Not all DNA looks like the familiar double helix. Sometimes, parts of our genetic code fold into unusual shapes under certain conditions. One such structure known as a G-quadruplex (G4) looks like a knot. These knot-like conformations can play important ...

Our DNA is arranged into chromosomes that carry a kind of protective shield at their ends, called telomeres. These protective caps are crucial to the stability of chromosomes, and when telomeres become dysfunctional, serious disorders, like certain types ...

Somewhere in a plastics factory, a woman coughed, setting off a chain of events that has led to questions about DNA evidence in three local crime cases. Evidence analysts at the Tucson Police Department's crime lab were working to match evidence samples to ...

OAKLAND — Police here have been forced to take extra investigative steps after learning their prime suspect in a 2023 carjacking has an identical twin brother. The 33-year-old man has already been charged with carjacking, gun possession by a felon and ...

Neural networks are computing systems designed to mimic both the structure and function of the human brain. Caltech researchers have been developing a neural network made out of strands of DNA instead of electronic parts that carries out computation ...

Savannah Guthrie says family’s money will be on top of FBI reward for any information that helps locate missing mother.

DNA test of blood found on the home’s front porch showed it came from the mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie. “Nancy Guthrie is bleeding from some area, either the hands or the face,” forensic pathologist Dr.