How do scientists read a person’s DNA? – James, aged 11, Thame, UK DNA (which stands for deoxyribonucleic acid) contains all the information needed to make your body work.

Many of the modern DNA sequencing techniques involve partially overlapping methods, so our past articles have provided a nice foundation. In this case, the tethered PCR approach that we mentioned ...

Biologists have discovered a mechanism that allows cells to read their own DNA in the correct direction and prevents them from copying most of the so-called "junk DNA" that makes up long stretches ...

Oxford Nanopore has demonstrated commercial machines that read DNA bases directly. The technology offers a way to make genome sequencing faster, cheaper, and potentially convenient enough to let ...