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Tag Archives: DNA

This DNA isn’t on fire

March 12, 2013by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

How do you keep your T-shirts from lighting on fire? Roll around in some herring sperm DNA. That’s obviously not the intrinsic response; researchers at Italy’s Politecnico di Torino lab led […]

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Chemistry, Science News, Technology

You got mouse brains on my rat brains

February 27, 2013by Lindsey Reiser 1 Comment

Your cells can’t possibly live without you, right? Wrong. Researchers in Italy tested the boundaries of life existing beyond the death of the individual, specifically, brain cells. Scientists inserted mice […]

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Animals, Genetics, Science News

Take that, double helix

January 21, 2013by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

Sure, two strands of DNA are pretty impressive, but what about four strands? Scientists at Cambridge University found that not only does it exist, it exists in functioning human cells. […]

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Chemistry, Medicine, Science News

From the bellies of flies

January 4, 2013by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

…comes an impressive DNA catalogue. Researchers are now turning to flesh-eating flies to get a better idea of the numbers and species of mammals in more remote areas. Scientists at Robert […]

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Animals, Ecology, Genetics, Science News

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