A review in Quantitative Biology demonstrates that scientists can now reliably build and combine very large pieces of DNA, making it much easier to redesign microbes such as yeast and bacteria to act ...

A remarkably preserved Siberian woolly mammoth, dating back 52,000 years, has yielded an astonishing discovery: fossilized chromosomes. This unprecedented find, made possible by natural freeze-drying, ...

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Professor Indraneel Mittra and his team show that DNA fragments from dying cells function as agents of horizontal gene transfer in mammalian cells. For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can ...