As with most things, nature’s data storage system, DNA, far surpasses anything we’ve created. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have doubled its already incredible ...

Scientists add seven new letters to the existing nucleotide alphabet, opening the door for extreme levels of data storage capacity. Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer at CNET. She covered climate ...

The puzzle seems impossible: take a three-billion-letter code and predict what happens if you swap a single letter. The code we’re talking about—the human genome—stores most of its instructions in ...

Research reveals that five DNA letters can switch chromatin between fluid and solid-like states, influencing gene ...

A new cache of letters released 50 years after Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick and James Watson won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of DNA's structure reveals that not everyone agreed on which prize ...

Scientists are expanding the genetic code of life, using man-made DNA to create a semi-synthetic strain of bacteria — and new research shows those altered microbes actually worked to produce proteins ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists are working to create yeast that operates with custom-made DNA. They have long been able to make specific changes in an organism’s DNA. Now, they’re pushing into the more ...

Has the next biotech unicorn just been minted? Two California firms are focused on a radical new way of writing DNA to create everything from COVID-19 antibodies to new options for high-density data ...

INDIANAPOLIS — An IUPUI researcher was awarded a $792,000, four-year grant from the American Cancer Society so that she can study the role of DNA replication errors in cancer. Lata Balakrishnan, an ...

A tiny percentage of our DNA—around 2%—contains 20,000-odd genes. The remaining 98%—long known as the non-coding genome, or ...