Scientists have discovered that DNA behaves in a surprising way when squeezed through tiny nanopores, overturning a long-held ...

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed software that reduces the time needed ...

Engineered DNA can store massive amounts of data while also encrypting it, opening the door to ultra-secure, long-term ...

One of the new DNA-binding proteins was tested in a medical diagnostic method known as loop-mediated isothermal amplification ...

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

New data shows that at least 1,129 bodies have been recovered in Gaza but remain unidentified. Experts on the ground tell Maira Butt that the uncertainty is leaving families in agony ...

Although there are striking differences between the cells that make up your eyes, kidneys, brain and toes, the DNA blueprint for these cells is essentially the same. Where do those differences come ...

The next great biological threat may not begin in a wet market, a jungle, or a laboratory accident. It may begin on a laptop ...

Life’s story may stretch further back than scientists once thought. Some genes found in nearly every organism today were already duplicated before all life shared a common ancestor. By tracking these ...

Among them was David Liu, a biochemist at the Broad Institute and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Liu isn’t a ...

For more than a century, scientists and conservationists have tried to bring back the American chestnut, a tree once so common it shaped forests ...

With new technology, smarter tools, and a lot of patient digging, historians and archaeologists are uncovering marvels from every corner of the world. One day it’s an enormous thigh bone from a ...