Can a neural network be constructed entirely from DNA and yet learn in the same way as its silicon-based brethren? Recent ...

Traditional storage media like silicon chips and magnetic tapes are hitting their capacity limits. DNA offers a promising ...

A CRISPR system detects rare cancer mutations in blood with single-nucleotide precision, outperforming ddPCR through ...

Most biochemistry labs that study DNA isolate it within a water-based solution that allows scientists to manipulate DNA without interacting with other molecules. They also tend to use heat to separate ...

Every person starts as just one fertilized egg. By adulthood, that single cell has turned into roughly 37 trillion cells, many of which keep dividing to create the same amount of fresh human cells ...

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At technology conferences back in 2015, scientist David Markowitz raised the idea that DNA could be adapted as a data storage material. The audience response wasn’t all he had hoped for. “They would ...

A fundamental characteristic of the field of genomics is aspiring to be comprehensive. After all, genomics is the study of all of an organism’s DNA: its genome. Scientists in the Telomere-to-Telomere ...

A study, published in the journal Frontiers in Genome Editing, outlines a method for editing single plant cells from sterile ...