Scientists at the University of Vienna have achieved a significant milestone in DNA technology, introducing a breakthrough that expands the color spectrum available for DNA-based images. Traditionally ...

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(Nanowerk News) The DNA double helix is composed of two DNA molecules whose sequences are complementary to each other. The stability of the duplex can be fine-tuned in the lab by controlling the ...

With DNA-based convictions and exonerations becoming more common, replacing often-flawed eyewitness testimony, crime fighters will soon have another genetics-based tool at their disposal: a test to ...

Researchers have developed a new technique for making metamaterials with nanoscale structures that can be tuned with strange optical properties. Using gold nanoparticles attached to strands of DNA ...

Many men might not even think to do it. But Color Genomics founder and president Othman Laraki has had himself tested for the BRCA pair of genes, which are widely known to correlate to breast cancer ...

Blond or brunette? Your hair color was determined by tiny changes in your DNA that affected solely the pigment of your tresses and no other trait, according to a new Stanford study. The study, ...

Imagine if criminals conveniently left calling cards at crime scenes that helped describe the culprits. Barring video or photographic evidence, the closest investigators have come to this dream has ...

The government of the German state of Bavaria has just passed a new law that will give police much more leeway when it comes to using DNA to track down a suspect, Science reports. Until now, law ...

An international team has developed a novel tool to accurately predict eye, hair and skin color from human biological material -- even a small DNA sample -- left, for example, at a crime scene or ...

More and more information is being gathered about how human genes influence medically relevant traits, such as the propensity to develop a certain disease. The ultimate goal is to predict whether or ...