Scientists at the University of Vienna have achieved a significant milestone in DNA technology, introducing a breakthrough that expands the color spectrum available for DNA-based images. Traditionally ...

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Researchers have developed a new technique for making metamaterials with nanoscale structures that can be tuned with strange optical properties. Using gold nanoparticles attached to strands of DNA ...

(Nanowerk News) The DNA double helix is composed of two DNA molecules whose sequences are complementary to each other. The stability of the duplex can be fine-tuned in the lab by controlling the ...

When Pam Kinamore left work on a Friday evening, July 12, 2002, she never came home. Four days later a Louisiana state worker discovered her body near the Baton Rouge Whiskey Bay Bridge. An autopsy ...

Criminals can run, but they might be leaving some incriminating evidence behind. Scientists have figured out how to use DNA information to predict a person's hair color. In the near future, DNA from ...

With DNA-based convictions and exonerations becoming more common, replacing often-flawed eyewitness testimony, crime fighters will soon have another genetics-based tool at their disposal: a test to ...

Imagine if criminals conveniently left calling cards at crime scenes that helped describe the culprits. Barring video or photographic evidence, the closest investigators have come to this dream has ...

Hybrid nano-materials expand the spectrum of color-based biomolecular sensors. At nanoscale dimensions, tiny particles of gold lose their characteristic glitter and take on bright new colors through a ...

Blond or brunette? Your hair color was determined by tiny changes in your DNA that affected solely the pigment of your tresses and no other trait, according to a new Stanford study. The study, ...