Scientists Learn To Customize Nutrition Based Upon DNA

Deep in each person’s genetic code may lie the answers to which medicines can help them, which environmental toxins can kill them, and even which foods they should eat to live well. The tantalizing prospect of personally tailored diets, dictated by our genetic makeup, drew hundreds of scientists Read more

New Way To Think About Earth’s First Cells

A team of researchers at Harvard University have modeled in the laboratory a primitive cell, or protocell, that is capable of building, copying and containing DNA.

Since there are no physical records of what the first primitive cells on Earth looked like Read more

DNA Clues To Reproductive Behavior

The study focused on the wild yeast Saccharomyces paradoxus, which is able to reproduce both sexually and asexually. The scientific team used this yeast to examine how sexual and asexual reproduction cause different types of variations in an organism’s DNA sequence. Read more