A pioneering DNA scientist reflects on science, faith and purpose, offering a grounded view of how discovery and everyday ...

Around 40,000 years ago, our ancient ancestors interbred with Neanderthals, picking up some of their DNA. Since then, much of ...

Learn more about new research that analyzed 16,000 ancient genomes and discovered that natural selection hasn’t slowed down.

Scientists from Skoltech and the University of Potsdam have developed a physical theory that sheds light on how molecular ...

Researchers shed new light on G-quadruplexes, a type of secondary DNA structure that has attracted attention as a potential therapeutic target in cancer. Every day, billions of cells in your body ...

DNA robots are emerging as tiny programmable machines that could one day deliver drugs, hunt viruses, and build molecular-scale devices. By borrowing ideas from traditional robotics and combining them ...

Scientists are finding ways to merge biology with electronics, unlocking new possibilities for data storage and computing.

Synthetic DNA's incorporation into electronics is changing neuromorphic computing's methodology and is the new way of ...

Before the DNA revolution of the early 2000s, genealogy was a study dependent on records. Tracing a line of heritage could hit a dead end if documentation had gone missing or been destroyed. But as ...

A new online course from Cornell University is giving students a hands-on way to learn genomic data science — by working ...

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