The discovery of DNA started with this overlooked scientist

In 1869, Swiss scientist Friedrich Miescher isolated a mysterious substance from cell nuclei—an overlooked finding that would ...

This Hidden 3D DNA Structure Changes What We Know About Cells

Over the past two decades, researchers have learned that DNA inside the cell nucleus naturally folds into a network of ...

DeepMind’s New AI Can Read a Million DNA Letters at Once—and Actually Understand Them

Artificial intelligence has gotten a bad reputation lately, and often for good reason. But a team of scientists at Google’s ...
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What is DNA, and why it’s a key to understanding life, health, and disease: UAB experts explain how our DNA shapes who we are

DNA is often called the blueprint of life, but what does that really mean? Elizabeth Worthey, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Genetics in the Heersink School of Medicine, explains everything ...
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Google’s AlphaGenome predicts the function of a DNA sequence

Google’s artificial intelligence research laboratory where AlphaFold was developed—has officially released a new machine ...
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Ask a Scientist: Can DNA give us clues about the ocean?

Oceana scientist Caitlynn Birch explains how environmental DNA, or eDNA, helps us understand and protect the oceans ...
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The DNA Helix Changed How We Thought About Ourselves

“The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we conceived of life itself. The X-ray crystallography by Rosalind Franklin ...
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New DNA study upends everything we thought we knew about the Beachy Head woman

The Beachy Head Woman has carried a heavy burden for a long dead individual, pressed into service as a symbol of modern ...