Mitochondria are often described as the cell’s power plants, but a wave of new research suggests their genetic material may ...

Based on genetic material preserved in birch bark tar from Estonia, researchers found that the teen likely had brown hair and ...

It may not be as catchy a name as Iron Man, but in a fight you might be better off betting on Glass DNA Nanolattice Man instead. Engineers at the University of Connecticut have developed a very strong ...

Scientists were able to fabricate a pure form of glass and coat specialized pieces of DNA with it to create a material that was not only stronger than steel, but incredibly lightweight. Working on the ...

The new round of industrial revolution requires a significant transformation in the mode of materials research and development. Materials genome engineering, aimed at accelerating the R&D of new ...

EVANSTON, IL, June 26, 2011 – QuesTek Innovations LLC supports the creation of the Materials Genome Initiative announced Friday by President Obama, and the further application of computational methods ...

Cornell researchers have found that a new DNA sequencing technology can be used to study how transposons move within and bind ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – University at Buffalo materials scientist Amit Goyal recently served on a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) committee that issued a consensus study ...

A previously unknown type of DNA damage in the mitochondria, the tiny power plants inside our cells, could shed light on how ...

Learn more about the genetics of the vampire squid — a strange species whose genome suggests that modern octopuses, squids, ...