Science news articles about 'discovery of dna'

Twenty-five years ago academic Alec Jeffreys stumbled on a remarkable discovery. The scientific breakthrough led to DNA fingerprinting - which has since trapped hundreds of killers, freed the innocent ...

... low levels in another tissue." Since the discovery of DNA's double helical structure more than a half ... binding sites in the promoter region tolerate DNA base substitutions, so the same transcription ...

... the result is what we see in giraffes today. With the advent of Mendelian genetics and the later discovery of DNA, Lamarck's ideas fell out of favor entirely. Research on epigenetics, while yet to ...

... episode of "LOST"; one question gets answered but that answer raises two more questions. The discovery of DNA and genes has answered many questions about who we are and why we are, but to what degree ...

As the University of Leicester approaches the 25th anniversary of the discovery of DNA fingerprinting (September 10), Leicester geneticists interested in a particular type of DNA are receiving some ...

In the week that the University of Leicester celebrates the 25th anniversary of the discovery of DNA fingerprinting (Thursday September 10) new findings from the world-renowned University of Leicester ...

... the molecular principles that control the cell, but also to aiding pharmaceutical drug discovery efforts. "DNA and RNA are large and cumbersome macromolecular polymers which present a challenge to ...