Experts share their insights with The i Paper as the UK becomes home to the first major project looking to write human DNA ...

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

Using an inexpensive electrode coated with DNA, MIT researchers have designed disposable diagnostics that could be adapted to detect a variety of diseases, including cancer or infectious diseases such ...

Scientists with the Synthetic Human Genome Project are trying to create artificial human DNA from scratch, leading to numerous ethical concerns. While the ...

The technology could zero in on one spot in a cell’s genome, and then either snip out or insert new DNA. Dr. Shendure and his colleagues set out to use CRISPR to record a cell’s history.

Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete ...

Alchemy cell-free DNA technology is now available at research grade, providing researchers with a faster, more efficient method to produce high-quality DNA templates.

In a paper in Science this week, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard scientists led by Fei Chen and Jason Buenrostro report a method to tackle these questions (2025, DOI: 10.1126/science.adt2781).

Scientists have found a way to sample DNA out of the air on a large scale — making it possible to one day track the health and well being of all kinds of species around the world.

Biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry professionals turn to digital microscopy for consistent and efficient electronic ...

Chargaff, an Austrian biochemist, had read the famous 1944 paper by Oswald Avery and his colleague s at Rockefeller University, which demonstrated that hereditary units, or genes, are composed of DNA.