(Image: Wikimedia Commons, CC SA 3.0) The most common type of base pairing is the Watson-Crick base pair, named after James Watson and Francis Crick, who first proposed the double helix structure of ...

DNA transcription is the vital first step needed for switching on our genes. For a gene to be switched on, it must be acted ...

A new study shows that long-read sequencing has the potential to improve the rate of diagnosis while reducing the time to diagnosis from years to days -- in a single test and at a much lower cost.

Thanks to the Human Genome Project, researchers have sequenced all 3.2 billion base pairs in the human genome. How did researchers complete this chromosome map years ahead of schedule? Initial ...

The entire human genome requires three gigabytes of computer data storage space. (One million base pairs of sequence data equals one megabyte of storage space; the human genome has three billion ...

Plasmids have a wide range of lengths, from roughly one thousand DNA base pairs to hundreds of thousands of base pairs. When a bacterium divides, all of the plasmids contained within the cell are ...

This can easily be achieved with a copy number calculator, all you need to know is the concentration of DNA in your sample in ng/µl and the length of your template in base pairs. The concentration of ...