This video is a bit different and more on the biochemistry side. During my Biochemistry degree, this was one prep that always amazed me. I'll be extracting DNA from strawberries and then giving it a ...

Primerdesign, part of the Novacyt Group, has launched the exsig ® Mag RapidBead Pro Extraction kit, a magnetic bead-based system for rapid nucleic acid purification. The kit enables extraction of DNA ...

Tim Wu’s “The Age of Extraction” is a dispiriting guide to the way Silicon Valley has warped our markets and our democracy. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an independently reviewed book through ...

The Age of AI will rely on massive volumes of data that can be easily stored and retrieved—and bioscience may have an ingenious solution. A scientist examines a DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) profile on ...

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When Neandertals were first discovered nearly 170 years ago, the conceptual gap between their lineage and that of modern humans seemed vast. Initially scientists prejudicially believed that the ...

DNA has been used for years to store data, but encoding information into the molecule is painstaking work. Now, researchers have drastically sped it up by mimicking a natural biological process that ...

An ancient DNA (aDNA) study at the 17th-century English colony of Jamestown, Virginia, has identified two of the town's earliest settlers, and revealed an unexpected family secret. Founded in AD 1607, ...

When it comes to DNA extraction, most people tend to think of blood or tissue samples like hair, muscle, or bones. But what about plants? Though plants are probably not the first to come to mind when ...

In 2022, researchers shared that they had uncovered an ancient ecosystem from sediments in the Kap København Formation in Greenland (Nature 2022, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05453-y). By sequencing DNA ...