DNA

Human Cell Reprogramming Like A Computer

Human Cell Hack & Reprogram By Scientists Using Computer Codes Changes Its Behavior

Medicine & Technology Mar 29, 2017

Reprogramming human cell using computer codes will help cure gene-related diseases. Scientists are elaborating the benefits of the procedure.

Scientists examined 32 different kinds of cancer from the human body and found out that 66 percent of these cancers can be triggered by erroneous DNA mutations.

DNA Mutations, Genome Errors Account For 66 Percent Of Cancer Risks: Unhealthy Lifestyle, Just Secondary Trigger

Mar 27, 2017

Scientists discovered that DNA mutations and genome errors are top causes of cancers. This defies the theory that unhealthy lifestyle, smoking, among others are triggering cancer cells.

Your DNA May Soon Store Full Length Movie, Game

Mar 03, 2017

A new coding technique maximizes DNA's data storage capacity. Researchers successfully store a Computer Operating System and Short Movie in DNA.

DNA Blinking Showed In A New Imaging Technique

Feb 21, 2017

The researchers from the University in Evanston, Ill was able to witness the DNA blinking response with the latest imaging technique.

Fighting Fire With Fire—Viruses to Combat Disease

May 28, 2015

University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have unraveled the mystery of a strange virus in the hopes of creating more effective tools in the war against human disease. The secret weapon this virus may offer? "Armor" for disease-fighting DNA courtesy of the SIRV2 virus, who calls acid at almost boiling temperatures home.

New Issue of ‘Science’ Tackles Individualized Immunotherapies and the Future of Cancer Research

Apr 02, 2015

When it comes to tackling important issues within the science community that address realistic needs of the public, few publications are quite as thoughtful as the journal Science when it comes to curating the best of the best research, in any given field. Though the journal often covers a wide breadth of topics, this week they’re headed in a new direction, talking about game-changing cancer immunotherapy and the future possibility of individualized treatments that will take every patient’s genetic makeup and mutations into consideration. And it has become a conversation led by many hopeful researchers at the helm, backed by promising data.

Genetic “Adam” Lived 239,000 Years Ago, Landmark Study Says

Mar 27, 2015

In an unprecedented study which involved the largest set of gemoes from a single human population, researchers found data suggesting that the "father of humanity" lived 100,000 earlier than previously thought.

DNA Evidence of Wheat Upsets Archeological History of the Crop in Early England

Feb 27, 2015

When British researchers went diving in Bouldnor Cliff, a submarine archaeological site near the Isle of Wight in the UK, it would fit to assume that they hadn’t quite banked on finding evidence of wheat beneath the waters. But when the researcher analyzed a core sample obtained from sealed sediments, microfossils with sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) of wheat species revealed that there might be far more to the story of the cash crop and trade in ancient Britain—perhaps even 2,000 years more than what the current history predicts.

Electrical DNA? Scientists Create Nano Wires From Building Blocks of Life

DNA 'Wires' Can Carry Electricity

Oct 28, 2014

Scientists working at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have reportedly made a breakthrough in nanotechnology that could have far-reaching implications for nanotechnology. The group, comprised of researchers from the U.S., Spain, Italy, Cyprus and Denmark, published their findings in Nature Nanotechnology and claim they have been able to show that DNA molecules can carry electric current.

How A Parasite Became a Power House—The Tale of Mitochondria

Oct 17, 2014

Through the use of simple components, sugar, oxygen and transfer molecules, the mitochondria are able to create and store energy through the simple movement of electrons from one bond to another. And in spite of conflicting theories describing their possible origins, a new study at the University of Virginia is proving that the energy creators weren’t always self-sustaining components.