DNA: Expanding code of life with new 'letters' Date: May 27, 2015 Source: American Chemical Society Summary: The DNA encoding all life on Earth is made of four building blocks called nucleotides ...

The chicken's genome is the first from a bird to be "sequenced," which means scientists identified the 1 billion letters of its DNA code ... said Richard K. Wilson of the Washington University ...

The cold case murder of a 26-year-old Pennsylvania mother in 1988 has finally been solved thanks to DNA evidence found on a chilling letter sent to a local newspaper decades ago with intimate ...

DNA is naturally made up of combinations of four nucleobases: adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine. Represented by the letters A, G, C and T, these bases group together in different sequences to ...

Researchers in California have for the first time created an organism whose genetic code comprises six letters instead of four. This means that the bacterium, described in a study published in ...

Scientists have developed a way to carve shapes from DNA canvases, including all the letters of the Roman alphabet, emoticons and an eagle’s head. Bryan Wei, a postdoctoral scholar at Harvard ...