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

New research suggests DNA may not need activation, challenging a long-held idea about how life began and reshaping ...

For more than a century, Neanderthals have been cast as a vanished side branch of the human family tree, a brief encounter in our deep past. The latest high resolution Neanderthal genome, combined ...

Scientists show DNA polymerases can build long, patterned DNA without a template, opening new paths for synthetic biology 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 ...

TYLER, Texas — In a world of crime solving, DNA technology is no longer just cutting-edge – it's front and center. The DNA Doe Project is a nonprofit organization where volunteers help identify ...