Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make ...

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

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

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

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

Sweetpotato, a critical food crop for millions, has finally had its genetic code fully decoded after decades of mystery.

At the heart of the case against the man accused of the Gilgo Beach killings is DNA evidence — but the novel way that ...

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

Scientists in China have developed an experimental “DNA cassette tape” to address the global data storage crisis.

A judge allowed key DNA evidence to be used in Rex Heuermann’s trial in the Gilgo Beach case. It’s a significant advancement ...

A technology has emerged that utilizes the nearly obsolete "cassette tape" as a data storage device. A joint research team ...

Evidence derived from cutting-edge DNA technology that prosecutors say points directly at Rex Heuermann being the Gilgo Beach ...