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

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

By blending scientific accuracy with creative design, one builder hopes to make the history of DNA accessible, interactive, ...

Although DNA is tightly packed and protected within the cell nucleus, it is constantly threatened by damage from normal ...

A new vaccine design uses folded DNA to steer the immune system toward producing the rare immune cells needed to make ...

DNA stores the instructions for life and, along with enzymes and other molecules, computes everything from hair color to risk of developing diseases. Harnessing that prowess and immense storage ...

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

You walk through a field of wheat, ryegrass, or clover and notice the sway of stems and leaves. What you cannot see is where most of the action happens. Beneath the soil surface, roots spread, compete ...

One of the challenges of fighting pancreatic cancer is finding ways to penetrate the organ's dense tissue to define the margins between malignant and normal tissue. A new study uses DNA origami ...

WASHINGTON — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers sequenced whole ...

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