In 1953, when scientists conclusively identified DNA’s structure, it was a monumental, Nobel-Prize-winning revelation: four nucleotides, each containing a letter-labeled base, were arranged in a ...

Researchers have synthesized new ingredients for the blueprint of life. Steven Benner, a pioneer in the field of synthetic biology, and his team created four new DNA letters, according a study out and ...

The decades-old murder of a 26-year-old Pennsylvania mother of three was recently solved thanks to DNA evidence found on a letter sent to a local newspaper years ago that recounted the details of ...

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 ...

"Sixty-eight years after he was killed on Dec. 7, 1941," The Honolulu Advertiser writes, DNA lifted from envelopes that 18-year-old sailor Gerald Lehman licked when he sent letters home to his ...

Scientists have finished reading the "book of life", the three billion letters of DNA that spell out the recipe of a person. Half a century after scientists in Cambridge first unveiled DNA's ...