A traditional cassette tape holds roughly 10 to 12 songs on each side, but 328 feet of this DNA cassette tape could hold the ...

Our increasingly digitized world has a data storage problem. Hard drives and other storage media are reaching their limits, ...

For decades, scientists thought the noncoding parts of DNA were useless leftovers. Today, that view has completely changed.

To celebrate the start of the school year in the US, Google featured a Doodle highlighting DNA chemistry on Sept. 10, 2025.

An analysis of the bones and teeth of ancient mammoths (Mammuthus) has identified some of the microorganisms that lived in ...

DNA is often compared to a written language. The metaphor leaps out: Like letters of the alphabet, molecules (the nucleotide bases A, T, C and G, for adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine) are ...

While tools like CRISPR have blown the field of genome hacking wide open, being able to predict what will happen when you tinker with the code underlying the living things on our planet is still ...

Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps ...

By combining the information storage capabilities of DNA with a design inspired by a cassette tape, researchers have created ...