Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

DNA, the blueprint of life, is best known for its fundamental role as genetic material—storing and transmitting biological information through the precise sequence of its bases. For decades, this ...

The lack of progress in the Nancy Guthrie investigation has generated pressure and questions for local and federal investigators who haven’t held a news conference in days.

Scientists are exploring how DNA’s physical structure can store vast amounts of data and encode secure information.

Researchers are embarking on the RNA equivalent of the Human Genome Project, including sequencing all the chemical modifications that make cells unique.

Industrial biotechnology researchers work in a laboratory affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Tianjin in January last year. [Photo/Xinhua] A recent breakthrough in synthetic biology in ...

Engineered DNA can store massive amounts of data while also encrypting it, opening the door to ultra-secure, long-term ...

Since the computer age began, storing and securing escalating data volumes has been a headache. But that problem could ...

DNA nanostructures store and encrypt data using physical shape, enabling fast electronic readout and secure molecular ...

In a nearly 180-page filing, lawyers for Rex Heuermann, charged in seven killings, argued that the prosecution had improperly seized their client’s pizza crusts and portrayed him as porn-obsessed. By ...