TL;DR: Researchers have developed a method for writing data to DNA strands quickly and efficiently, potentially revolutionizing electronic data storage. In the future, electronic data storage systems ...

Nearly 25 years after scientists completed a draft human genome sequence, many of its 3.1 billion letters remain a puzzle. The 98% of the genome that is not made of protein-coding genes — but which ...

Every cell in the body has the same DNA, but different cell types—such as muscle or brain cells—use different parts of it.

Researchers are queuing up to try a powerful microscopy technique that can simultaneously sequence an individual cell’s DNA and pinpoint the location of its proteins with high resolution — all without ...

The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...