Information can be encoded into all sorts of patterns, whether it’s short and long beeps for Morse code, raised bumps for Braille, or ones and zeroes for computers. Now researchers have demonstrated a ...

“When the first draft of the human genome was completed . . . it became immediately clear that while we had the primary sequence of the genome, or we had a draft of it . . . we needed to have an ...

Six papers on the ENCODE project are published in the September 6 issue of A massive international collaboration has enabled scientists to assign specific functions for 80 percent of the human genome, ...

Encoding information in DNA has long seemed like a promising way to secure data for the long term, but so far it has required an expert touch. It turns out that you don’t need to be a scientist to ...

Encoded Therapeutics has linked its Dravet syndrome gene therapy ETX101 to a 78% reduction in seizures, keeping the biotech on track to start a pivotal study next year. The Californian company’s ...

Java 8 will be remembered mainly for introducing lambdas, streams, a new date/time model, and the Nashorn JavaScript engine to Java. Some will also remember Java 8 for introducing various small but ...