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DNA: deoxyribonucleic acid is a molecule that carries the genetic instructions used in the growth, development, functioning and reproduction of all known living organisms and many viruses. DNA and ribonucleic acid (RNA) are nucleic acids; alongside proteins, lipids and complex carbohydrates (polysaccharides), they are one of the four major types of macromolecules that are essential for all known forms of life. Most DNA molecules consist of two biopolymer strands coiled around each other to form a double helix.
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JUL 14, 2015Neuroscience
Circadian clocks enable all living things to schedule their days so as not to be caught off guard by sunrise and sunset. ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 14, 2015Plants & Animals
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Can you spare a few minutes to reflect on three game-changing biology experiments?
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For years now, environmentalists, entomologists and other scientists have been watching the decline of the honeybee and ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUL 06, 2015Cancer
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So, how's it going up there? Scott Kelly, NASA astronaut, identical twin and current International Space Station residen ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUN 30, 2015Videos
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It would be safe to say that sometimes DNA gets jumbled up wrong and it results in mutants. It happens for humans, as we ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 25, 2015Health & Medicine
Salmonella enterica is the number one cause of bacterial foodborne illness worldwide. Infections can be transmitted by a ...Written By: Sarah HertrichJUN 23, 2015Videos
Have you ever stopped to wonder why one person might be left-handed and another right-handed? Or maybe, why one person m ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 18, 2015Cancer
According to the National Cancer Institute, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the United States, after ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUN 14, 2015Cancer
Oligodendroglioma, which can be an especially aggressive form of brain cancer, may be caused by a genetic mutation. Scie ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUN 04, 2015Neuroscience
Researchers, including a group at the Department of Psychology at the Technische Universitat Dresden in Germany, have wo ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAY 31, 2015Cancer
Genetic mechanisms of resistance to chemotherapy in the most common and the most lethal form of ovarian cancer may provi ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAY 27, 2015Plants & Animals
In the tropical jungles of Madagascar there are thousands of different species of birds, monkeys, reptiles and insects. ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAY 21, 2015Cancer
When people reach late middle age, about a quarter of their skin cells carry cancer-driving mutations caused by exposure ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAY 19, 2015Genetics & Genomics
There could be a connection between certain chronic diseases and the changing of the seasons.
Ne ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 15, 2015Cancer
While osteosarcoma, the most common type of cancer that starts in the bone, is rare, the consequences can be devastating ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAY 14, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Understanding the function of certain groups of non-coding RNAs will lead to a greater understanding of how certain illn ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAY 07, 2015Plants & Animals
At the University of Stirling in Scotland, Dr Mario Vallejo-Marin, an Evolutionary Plant Biologist found a new species o ...Written By: Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 14, 2015
Neuroscience
Circadian clocks enable all living things to schedule their days so as not to be caught off guard by sunrise and sunset.
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 14, 2015
Plants & Animals
Are you able to tell the difference between a piece of tilapia versus a piece of grouper? What about of piece of wild sa
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
JUL 11, 2015
Microbiology
Can you spare a few minutes to reflect on three game-changing biology experiments?
Up first, Louis Pasteur de ...
Up first, Louis Pasteur de ...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
JUL 10, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
In discovering that the three-dimensional shape of the cerebral cortex strongly correlates with ancestral background, re
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 09, 2015
Microbiology
Biofilms consist of surface-associated bacteria surrounded by an extracellular matrix (think dental plaque). Biofilms of
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
JUL 08, 2015
Plants & Animals
For years now, environmentalists, entomologists and other scientists have been watching the decline of the honeybee and
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 06, 2015
Cancer
While the BRCA2 gene is supposed to suppress tumors, its mutated form puts people at high risk for breast, ovarian and o
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 06, 2015
Space & Astronomy
So, how's it going up there? Scott Kelly, NASA astronaut, identical twin and current International Space Station residen
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 30, 2015
Videos
It's that time of year. It stays light longer, we want to linger in the yard and stay out until the stars come on. Excep
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 29, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
Dementia is a generic term used to describe a wide range of diseases related to brain malfunction that leads to memory l
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 27, 2015
Videos
On a bright day when you go outside, you're more than likely to start squinting. It's the body's natural response to lim
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 26, 2015
Videos
It would be safe to say that sometimes DNA gets jumbled up wrong and it results in mutants. It happens for humans, as we
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 25, 2015
Health & Medicine
Salmonella enterica is the number one cause of bacterial foodborne illness worldwide. Infections can be transmitted by a
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
JUN 23, 2015
Videos
Have you ever stopped to wonder why one person might be left-handed and another right-handed? Or maybe, why one person m
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 18, 2015
Cancer
According to the National Cancer Institute, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the United States, after
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUN 14, 2015
Cancer
Oligodendroglioma, which can be an especially aggressive form of brain cancer, may be caused by a genetic mutation. Scie
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUN 04, 2015
Neuroscience
Researchers, including a group at the Department of Psychology at the Technische Universitat Dresden in Germany, have wo
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAY 31, 2015
Cancer
Genetic mechanisms of resistance to chemotherapy in the most common and the most lethal form of ovarian cancer may provi
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAY 27, 2015
Plants & Animals
In the tropical jungles of Madagascar there are thousands of different species of birds, monkeys, reptiles and insects.
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAY 21, 2015
Cancer
When people reach late middle age, about a quarter of their skin cells carry cancer-driving mutations caused by exposure
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAY 19, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
There could be a connection between certain chronic diseases and the changing of the seasons.
Ne ...
Ne ...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 15, 2015
Cancer
While osteosarcoma, the most common type of cancer that starts in the bone, is rare, the consequences can be devastating
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAY 14, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Understanding the function of certain groups of non-coding RNAs will lead to a greater understanding of how certain illn
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAY 07, 2015
Plants & Animals
At the University of Stirling in Scotland, Dr Mario Vallejo-Marin, an Evolutionary Plant Biologist found a new species o
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim