KNOXVILLE, TN — Agarose gel electrophoresis" Most teenagers wouldn’t have a clue what this scientific term means, but middle school student Andrew Trigiano knows the protocol inside and out. When ...

Scientists have discovered that DNA behaves in a surprising way when squeezed through tiny nanopores, overturning a long-held ...

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Decoding the identity of biomolecules from trace samples is a longstanding goal in the field of biotechnology, and while next-generation sequencing technologies have made it possible to identify ...

DNA profiling technologies are rapidly advancing, creating the potential to identify individuals involved in making, packing and transporting illegal capsules by analysing the exterior of the illicit ...

Engineers at Duke University and the New York University's Tandon School of Engineering have demonstrated a method for ensuring that an increasingly popular method of genetic identification called ...

DNA: It's what makes you unique. Unless you have an identical twin, your DNA is different from that of every other person in the world. And that's what makes DNA fingerprinting possible. Experts can ...

Characterization, or ''typing," of blood, semen, and other body fluids has been used for forensic purposes for more than 50 years. 1 It began with blood groups, such as those of the ABO system, and ...