For decades, biologists have known that the instructions for life are written in DNA, yet the vast majority of those letters seemed to sit in the dark, doing little that was obvious. Now a new ...

A new method for recognizing and targeting DNA that dramatically expands the range of genetic sequences scientists can ...

DNA has been proposed as an alternative to magnetic and solid-state devices for storing digital data. In DNA data storage, writing data is performed through DNA synthesis, and reading is done via ...

High-throughput electrochemical synthesis is an emerging DNA synthesis technology that has attracted considerable attention due to its scalability and cost ...

DNA contains foundational information needed to sustain life. Understanding how this information is stored and organized has been one of the greatest scientific challenges of the last century. With ...

In just a few decades, DNA sequencing technologies evolved from slow, manual processes to rapid, automated ones, making ...

Silicon chips have powered computing for half a century. Increasingly, they are also becoming platforms to read and ...

The non-coding genome, once dismissed as "junk DNA", is now recognized as a fundamental regulator of gene expression and a key player in understanding complex diseases. Following the landmark ...

Genetic features known as transposons make up a large portion of many mammalian genomes, including humans', and they are now known to play a variety of roles. Some transposable elements (TEs) could be ...

Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely.

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 ...