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The H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009 underscored weaknesses in methods to diagnose the flu, from frequent false negatives to long wait times for results. Now a four-year... Read More »

Researchers have created a nanoscale sensor to electronically read the sequence of a single DNA molecule quickly and cheaply. This new technique could make DNA... Read More »

Using a new technology, scientists have created a ‘nanoslinky’ that manipulates and measures DNA molecules and other nanoscale materials. On the nanoscale ... Read More »

Mayo Clinic researchers have trained mouse immune systems to eradicate skin cancer from within, using a genetic combination of human DNA from melanoma cells and a... Read More »

Watching too much TV can worsen your genetic tendency towards obesity, but you can cut the effect in half by walking briskly for an hour a day, researchers report at... Read More »

A research team at Tufts University has identified epigenetic signatures of reprogrammed cells. These signatures are markers on DNA that can can control changes in... Read More »

Researchers reporting in the March issue of Cell Metabolism have found that when healthy but inactive men and women exercise for a matter of minutes, it produces a... Read More »

The Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is working on creating complex nanostructures by taking... Read More »

New DNA-reading technology could be used in the diagnosis of muscle-wasting diseases such as muscular dystrophy. The DNA sequencing machine would allow for a more... Read More »

Yale researchers have discovered why a certain type of blood cell gets so big. This finding also gives clues as to how leukemia can occur when the process goes wrong. ... Read More »

Recently, long-held assumptions about the function of sperm have been challenged as different components of sperm cells have been implicated in fertilization. Now... Read More »

Researchers at Harvard University have developed a robotic device made from DNA that could potentially seek out specific cell targets within a complex mixture of ... Read More »

A research group at the University of Alberta is hoping its latest discovery could one day be used to develop new therapies that target certain types of cancers. The... Read More »

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have, for the first time, described the genetic basis of endometriosis, a condition marked by chronic pelvic pain and... Read More »

In a recent study, researchers compared DNA of identical twins of different ages. They showed that structural modifications of DNA, where segments change direction... Read More »

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have found evidence of losses and gains of chromosomal pairs across various cancer types that may help in understanding the nature... Read More »

An inherited mutation is likely the link between exploding chromosomes and some aggressive types of cancer. Looking at the complete genome sequence of childhood brain ... Read More »

Researchers have discovered the first known mechanism by which cells control the survival of messenger RNA (mRNA). Because mRNA helps regulate cell division, this... Read More »

Cancer radiation therapy capitalizes on radiation's ability to kill cells by causing double-strand breaks in DNA. But, because varying levels of radiation are... Read More »

A team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame have demonstrated a novel DNA detection method called laser transmission spectroscopy (LTS). LTS rapidly... Read More »