Although there are striking differences between the cells that make up your eyes, kidneys, brain and toes, the DNA blueprint ...

Fragments of DNA from long-extinct human relatives still circulate in modern genomes, and in some cases they do more than ...

What if the smallest molecule of life became the ultimate medium for digital storage? Faced with the avalanche of data flooding the planet, researchers are exploring the physical structure of ...

A new study says genetic testing can speed the return of the American chestnut tree that once dominated Eastern U.S. forests.

Scientists are exploring how DNA’s physical structure can store vast amounts of data and encode secure information.

When scientists sequence tumor DNA, they typically find small amounts of genetic code from bacteria, viruses and ...

With a shared purpose, we can realize the true promise of CRISPR and improve healthcare, providing hope to more patients with ...

When scientists sequence tumor DNA, they typically find small amounts of genetic code from bacteria, viruses and fungi – microorganisms that, if actually present in tumor tissues, could influence how ...

The new workflow was adapted from an enzymatic DNA tagging technology, DNA-TAG, previously developed in the Devaraj lab. In ...

Since the dawn of the computer age, researchers have wrestled with two persistent challenges: how to store ever-increasing ...

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 ...