CHINA is using the coronavirus pandemic as a cover to initiate a widespread surveillance operation involving the harvesting of DNA, activists fear, in a chilling hint at the superpower's totalitarian tendencies.

After Li Jingzhi's son went missing in 1988 she dedicated her life to searching for him. He was found in May this year.

A vast store of DNA is being used to study why the severity of symptoms for coronavirus is so varied.

After Li Jingzhi's son went missing in 1988 she dedicated her life to searching for him. He was found in May this year.

DNA information is stored in a sequence of chemical building blocks; computers store information as sequences of zeros and ones. Researchers want to transfer this concept to artificial molecules. Researchers have taken another step toward encoding information in the sequence of metal atoms in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), showing how to read the sequence. Multivariate MOFs could encode digital information, but also conduct programmed chemical modifications or controlled drug release.

Investigators present a new, quantitative technique that leverages DNA sequencing to make more sophisticated and accurate predictions about which primary melanomas are likely to recur and spread.

DNA has linked a 46-year-old man to a cold case murder that took place in a California nursing home 24 years ago, authorities said.

Italian senators on Thursday approved stripping far-right leader Matteo Salvini of his parliamentary immunity. The vote was close: 149 senators voted for, 141 against. Salvini now faces trial for allegedly kidnapping 131 rescued migrants last July, when he refused to let a rescue ship disembark on the island of Lampedusa. "I am proud to have defended Italy and I would do it again," Salvini said, referring to the vote.

Researchers have successfully determined the characteristics of electron emission when high-velocity ions collide with adenine - one of the four key nucleobases of DNA.