The “salmon-sperm facial” has all the makings of a buzzy beauty treatment. It’s got an outrageous name. And numerous celebrities – including the perma-glowy Jennifer Aniston – have endorsed it. But ...

Traits as diverse as the color of a person's eyes and the scent of a rose are determined by the information contained in DNA. Learn how this information is coded by strings of molecules called ...

It's intriguing and accurate enough, but also kind of... alarmist. As I found in the process of this polynucleotide review, there's a lot more to this treatment than its infamous nickname.

As the helicase moves along the DNA molecule, it continues breaking these hydrogen bonds and separating the two polynucleotide chains (Figure 1). Meanwhile, as the helicase separates the strands ...