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

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

New 'cassette tape' made of DNA has the capacity to store 36 petabytes of data, which could change the future of digital ...

With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to ...

With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to increased knowledge about gene regulation in human cells.

High in the Ecuadorian Andes, at altitudes thousands of meters above sea level, humans face environmental pressures very ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the oldest and deadliest infectious diseases we know. It commonly impacts the lungs, but can also affect other areas of the body like the spine, brain or kidneys.

Whether you turn red when drinking alcohol, dislike certain smells, or metabolize drugs differently from others, the ...

For decades, biologists treated DNA as a static string of letters, a linear code that cells read like text on a page. A new wave of research is forcing a rethink, showing that the three-dimensional ...

They built a cassette tape of DNA big enough to store every song ever recorded. In traditional DNA storage, all the data is mixed together. That’s why it’s so hard to retrieve it. To read one piece of ...

The two subspecies split about 20,000 years ago. But since then, they may have interbred more often than Smithsonian ...