For decades, biologists have known that the instructions for life are written in DNA, yet the vast majority of those letters seemed to sit in the dark, doing little that was obvious. Now a new ...

Silicon chips have powered computing for half a century. Increasingly, they are also becoming platforms to read and ...

In a way, sequencing DNA is very simple: There's a molecule, you look at it, and you write down what you find. You'd think it would be easy—and, for any one letter in the sequence, it is. The problem ...

Genetic information encoded in DNA sequences is a defining feature of all life on Earth. It provides the instructions that cells require to synthesize and assemble their molecular machinery, encodes ...

DNA storage has been widely considered as a promising alternative for exponentially growing data. However, the inherent complex secondary structures severely compromise the processes of synthesis, PCR ...

New research has discovered that the molecular machines responsible for copying our DNA have a surprising hidden talent—an ability to create entirely new and highly sophisticated DNA sequences from ...

In just a few decades, DNA sequencing technologies evolved from slow, manual processes to rapid, automated ones, making ...

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All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their epigenetics-meticulously placed chemical tags that influence which genes are expressed in ...

Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely.