The goal of gene therapy is to permanently cure hereditary diseases. One of the most promising technologies for this is the ...

Shakespeare’s entire catalog of sonnets and eight of his tragedies, all of Wikipedia’s English-language pages, and one of the first movies ever made: scientists have been able to fit the contents of ...

By shuttling silver and mercury between binding sites in DNA, scientists make the molecule switch conductance levels like a ...

The Age of AI will rely on massive volumes of data that can be easily stored and retrieved—and bioscience may have an ingenious solution. A scientist examines a DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) profile on ...

A new tool developed at, MetaGraph, allows scientists to search through vast public DNA and RNA databases in seconds — like a ...

DNA has tremendous potential as a data storage medium, but the process of synthesizing DNA from scratch is time-consuming. It has to be done one nucleotide at a time in a specific sequence. New ...

Computer scientists at ETH Zurich have developed a digital tool capable of searching through millions of published DNA ...

An incredible genetic analysis reveals that a lungfish has a larger genome than a human. We explore what this means.

Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps share 98.8% of their DNA. But is this actually true? And what does "similar ...