In fifth grade, Anna-Sophia Boguraev isolated DNA in a vegetable blender, and she was hooked. Looking at those pellets of DNA in her blender, she thought to herself “I'm going to be a biochemist when ...

When people think of DNA they usually visualize the elegant “twisted ladder” shape seen in everything from advertising logos to Biology textbooks. This visual is actually a kind of artist’s conception ...

The process of bacterial transformation involves the introduction of foreign plasmid DNA into a bacterial cell. The transformation of DNA into bacteria cells, for example, Escherichia coli (E. coli), ...

NASA astronaut Nick Hague runs an analysis with the miniPCR hardware for Genes in Space-6 during Expedition 59. This experiment explored how space radiation damages DNA and how cells repair that ...

The experiment could aid long-duration human space travel. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The first CRISPR experiment to take ...

The ability to genetically engineer plants is largely thanks to a microscopic helper: a bacterium called Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Agrobacterium in the wild causes damaging tumors in flowering plants ...