Imagine a container of tomatoes arriving at the container terminal in Aarhus. The papers state that the tomatoes are from ...

Inside cells, DNA twists and coils itself into a variety of different secondary structures—including i-motifs (iMs) and ...

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers this week introduced bills that would require U.S. firms to obtain a license before ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their epigenetics-meticulously placed chemical tags that influence which genes are expressed in ...

Cancer’s most catastrophic DNA damage has long looked like a crime scene without a culprit, with chromosomes shattered and ...

DNA synthesis is going global. The biosecurity rules aren’t keeping up.

Researchers demonstrated that it is feasible to encode executable payloads into synthetic DNA that, once sequenced and ...

DNA is known to keep its form for centuries, and the researchers found that their tape could store data for more than 345 years at room temperature, or about 20,000 years at 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 ...

A closeup look at colibactin’s structure reveals chemical motifs that guide its mutation-wreaking “warheads” to specific stretches of DNA.

Shai Carmi is a paid consultant and holds stock options at MyHeritage. Harald Ringbauer does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit ...