The UK Government recently announced a new public-private collaboration to develop the world's first early warning system for ...

Encoding information in DNA has long seemed like a promising way to secure data for the long term, but so far it has required an expert touch.

By using epigenetic modifications, you can quickly write data in parallel without needing to synthesize new DNA.

Bacteria frequently encounter adverse environmental conditions, such as nutrient scarcity and antibiotic exposure, which can induce DNA damage ...

DNA catapults into spotlight. A trio of research papers from Stanford Medicine researchers and their international ...

A novel discovery in the field of pancreatic cancer treatment has been unveiled, revealing the epigenetic silencing of BEND4 ...

Biology lectures teach students that when a cell’s replication machinery comes together, DNA polymerase takes off down the double-helix like a car on a highway ...

The "RNA world" hypothesis proposes that the earliest life on Earth may have been based on RNA—a single-stranded molecule similar in many ways to DNA—like some modern viruses. This is because, like ...

a process that requires a DNA strand to be synthesized from scratch. This approach is slow and many orders of magnitude more expensive than electronic data storage, says Albert Keung, a synthetic ...

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