DNA analysis

In this webinar, Caleb Proctor will tackle nucleic acid extraction complexities, sharing a streamlined pathway for obtaining high-quality and high-quantity results.

The 2.4-million-year-old environmental DNA fragments collected from permafrost in northern Greenland unlock insights into an ancient ecosystem.

Laboratory experts will share their insights on best practices for working with saliva-derived DNA samples.

An advanced multiomics solution allows researchers to predict gene expression, chromatin accessibility, and enhancer state from one DNA sample.

Colby Duncan uses a powerful criminal justice tool to decode DNA evidence.

With appropriate assays, scientists can overcome yield, fragmentation, and contamination challenges in cell-free DNA analysis.

At about 2 centimeters in length, Thiomargarita magnifica tests scientists’ notions of how large microbes can grow.

Genetic testing of people who died in Kyrgyzstan eight years before plague reached Europe reveals an ancient strain of the bacterium Yersinia pestis.

Research finds that a dog’s behavior has little to do with its genes.

Scientists find human DNA preserved in lice cement from the heads of South American mummies.

Genomic analysis of ancient chum salmon bones and cultural knowledge from the Tsleil-Waututh Nation suggest that people in the Pacific Northwest managed fisheries for thousands of years by harvesting males and releasing females.

A report of preserved fragments of nuclei and chromatin in a fossilized femur of a 125-million-year-old Caudipteryx dinosaur elicits skepticism.

The newly characterized “elegant jellyfish,” roughly the size of a human hand, had been on display in two aquariums in Japan for more than a decade.

A decade-long effort to probe gene regulation reveals differences between males and females, points to essential regulatory elements, and offers insight into past work on telomeres.

Preserved DNA extracted from the rock-like digestive blobs may offer insights into whale ecology.

For the past 10 years, life science has moved us closer to a complete understanding of what makes us human—our similarities, our differences, and our shared history.

Human remains around Roopkund Lake in India bear South Asian, East Asian, and Mediterranean ancestry.

The DNA of a whale shows its father was a beluga and its mother was a narwhal.

Researchers create a 3-D printed, portable centrifuge that can be affordably produced for science classrooms.