A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers this week introduced bills that would require U.S. firms to obtain a license before ...

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

Cornell researchers have found that a new DNA sequencing technology can be used to study how transposons move within and bind to the genome. Transposons play critical roles in immune response, ...

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

To our immune system, a potentially lifesaving gene therapy can look a lot like a dangerous infection. That's because most ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their epigenetics-meticulously placed chemical tags that influence which genes are expressed in ...

Researchers examined five AI models on multiple genomic tasks to see how well they performed. The findings provide a ...

Sediment DNA also traces life outside the cave. Predators dragged prey into sheltered chambers, humans left waste behind. By ...

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