In 1869, Swiss scientist Friedrich Miescher isolated a mysterious substance from cell nuclei—an overlooked finding that would ...

Since the dawn of the computer age, researchers have wrestled with two persistent challenges: how to store ever-increasing ...

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

RNA was long considered DNA’s boring biochemical relative. Researchers thought it merely takes the genetic information stored ...

In Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass," Alice is stuck in a never-ending race with the Red Queen yet never gains a ...

Once disregarded as “junk DNA,” scientists now know that this molecular dark matter is crucial for determining gene activity ...

It could transform our understanding of why diseases develop and the medicines needed to treat them, says researchers.

Over the past two decades, researchers have learned that DNA inside the cell nucleus naturally folds into a network of ...

Scientists have discovered that a protein once thought to simply help load a factor necessary for the copying of DNA, plays a ...

Google’s artificial intelligence research laboratory where AlphaFold was developed—has officially released a new machine ...

"By cleverly combining new techniques for analyzing DNA at the level of individual molecules, we can achieve real breakthroughs in research into conditions such as dementia," predicts Professor John ...