Scientists have created a silicon chip that can write dozens of DNA sequences simultaneously using electricity and water-based enzymes, offering a cleaner alternative to conventional DNA manufacturing ...

The DNA in a single cup of water can track wildlife, monitor pollution and survey pathogens in waterways and their surroundings, all at the same time. DNA is contained in each cell of every plant, ...

Harvard scientists have built a silicon chip that writes DNA using electricity and water, pointing toward a cleaner future ...

The Harvard chip is an early-stage demonstration rather than an industrial replacement for current DNA synthesis platforms.

Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have developed a new way to add large pieces of ...

Deep learning approaches have transformed how scientists predict the activity and function of DNA sequences in the genome. A ...

Enhancers are pieces of DNA that act like switches, regulating when genes are turned on and off and how strongly they are ...

Every cell in the human body carries the same 3 billion letters of DNA, yet a neuron, a heart muscle cell and a pancreatic beta cell each use that shared code to do entirely different jobs. How cells ...

Scientists have exploited a peculiar CRISPR enzyme so that it fights cancer by shredding the DNA in cancer cells, causing ...

Genuinely banned bits of information that governments tried very hard to keep buried forever Coffee found to have startling effect on aging, says new study He was fooling around on the edge - then his ...

Congenital heart disease is the most common birth defect, affecting approximately 1 in 100 babies born each year. One of the many causes for this disorder is having only one functional copy of the ...

Kathryn Paige Harden is a professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of “Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness.” ...