Uses for DNA may spread to far-flung fields like archaeology and fine arts

Atlantic |
In the past couple of decades, genetics has revolutionized fields such as...medicine. In the next couple, expect DNA to turn ...
DNA purification

The delicious, religious debate over junk DNA

Slate |
What exactly do "non-coding" regions of DNA do? As scientists sequence more genomes, we get closer to the answer to ...

Muscular dystrophy, Cri du Chat, “immigration delay disease”: When DNA fails

Slate |
We’ve seen already how freely genetics borrows from grammar books to describe how DNA works. Linguistic analogies also help make ...