A study published today in the journal Science reveals how jumping fragments of human DNA, a type of genetic parasite, ...

It should be hard — exceedingly hard — to obtain the synthetic DNA needed to recreate the virus that caused the deadly 1918 influenza pandemic without authorization. But my lab found that it’s ...

In the past few years, gel electrophoresis of DNA fragments has become an important complement to hybridization and amplification sequencing tools. As variations on PCR, RFLP, mutation sequencing, and ...

GAITHERSBURG, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MagBio Genomics, Inc., a company that focuses on magnetic bead-based nucleic acids sample preparation products for sequencing and molecular diagnostics, announces ...

Professor Indraneel Mittra and his team show that DNA fragments from dying cells function as agents of horizontal gene transfer in mammalian cells. For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can ...