DNA

Bodies of last Hong Kong balloon victims identified through DNA

4 Mar 2013

The Government Laboratory received the body samples after 10pm on Saturday and announced confirmation of the victims' identities in Cairo at 5pm Hong Kong time yesterday - just hours after...

Short Science, March 3, 2013

3 Mar 2013

A letter by Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of DNA, outlining the Nobel Prize-winning achievement to his young son is expected to fetch as much as US$2 million when it is auctioned by Christie's...

Tianyuan Man scientists unlock secrets of ancient DNA

17 Feb 2013

The remains of Tianyuan Man consisted of more than 30 fragments, including lower jaw and leg bones, but no skull - not enough to tell how closely the ancient human related to present-day Chinese....

Remains of King Richard III found under Leicester car park, scientists say

5 Feb 2013

University of Leicester researchers say tests on a battle-scarred skeleton unearthed last year prove "beyond reasonable doubt" that it is the king, who died at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485...

British scientists use man-made DNA speck to store 739kB of digital data

25 Jan 2013

Scientists in Britain have announced a breakthrough in the quest to turn DNA into a revolutionary form of data storage that could fit the world's entire three billion terabytes of stored data into...

Opinion

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Church developers remain unbowed by government rules

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Asians, native Americans descended from same group, DNA analysis shows

Present-day Asians and native Americans are descended from a group of people who were already in China 40,000 years ago, according to an analysis of fossil DNA published this week.

Health Bites

The ease of access to online medical information has had a positive overall impact on the relationship between patients and doctors in Hong Kong, finds a survey of more than 100 physicians in the...

Finding the Higgs boson tops scientific achievements this year

From landing the Curiosity rover on Mars after a 350-million-mile journey, to the discovery of the world's most wanted subatomic particle, the top 10 scientific achievements of 2012 have been...

SCIENCE FOCUS

How we live affects our descendants' genes, epigenetics shows

Is smoking a sin?

The First Commandment of the Bible states: "For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth...

Briefs, September 18, 2012

Four jailed for murder of Italian peace activist

ENVIRONMENT

Singapore company uses DNA tests to fight global trade in illegal timber

Call it CSI: Singapore.

Unlike the crime scene investigators from the popular TV series, these detectives are hired to look for evidence of rogue wood from stores increasingly worried about...