Podcast Review: DNA and Me
This BBC podcast focuses on direct-to-consumer DNA tests and identity...
A pair of complementary bases (chemical units that form DNA) in a double-stranded nucleic acid molecule.
In DNA, the base adenine (A) always pairs with thymine (T) and the base cytosine (C) always pairs with guanine (G).
This BBC podcast focuses on direct-to-consumer DNA tests and identity...
A new DNA sequencing technique allows researchers to sequence only the regions of interest, enabling faster results...
The widespread approval of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is not just based on the enormous significance of the discovery, it is also because the award has been given to two women — the first time that this has happened for any Nobel prize...
Disease risk, from single-gene variants, is influenced by the rest of the genome...
So, you think Watson and Crick discovered DNA? I did too, until I attended a talk by Professor Gareth Williams at the Royal Institution, called 'Unravelling the Double Helix'...
by Hugo Wolfe
Scientists who have decoded the great white shark genome for the first time may have uncovered clues which could help develop human cancer treatments...
The key enzyme used in CRISPR genome editing has competition...
The US Patent and Trademark Office has decided to grant two new CRISPR patents to the University of California, Berkeley...
As part of Genomics England's Genomics Conversation initiative, the Progress Educational Trust (PET) — the charity that publishes BioNews — is producing a public event this month entitled 'With Great Genomic Data Comes Great Responsibility'...
A 'twisted knot' of DNA, known as an i-motif, has been found in living cells for the first time, raising questions about its function...
BioNews, published by the Progress Educational Trust (PET), provides news and comment on genetics, assisted conception, embryo/stem cell research and related areas.