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Scientists are now working on something once thought impossible — creating human DNA entirely from scratch using chemicals, not parents. This synthetic DNA, or synDNA, could unlock powerful treatments ...

Last month, Chenedy Wiles finally got around to it. The 27-year-old traveling nurse spit into a tube and mailed it to 23andMe, where the genetic testing company’s lab examined her DNA and generated a ...

Genetic information company 23andMe has said that it is headed to bankruptcy court, raising questions for what happens to the DNA shared by millions of people with the company via saliva test kits.

Encoding information in DNA has long seemed like a promising way to secure data for the long term, but so far it has required an expert touch. It turns out that you don’t need to be a scientist to ...

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Megan Prictor is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals and the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law. Since it was founded ...

Imagine asking a search engine platform questions about your health and getting responses based on your own DNA. That's exactly what the founders of Bystro have created.

James Watson, a renowned molecular biologist and one of the Nobel Prize winners for discovering the structure of DNA, died Thursday after a brief illness, according to a statement from his former ...