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The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

In a landmark effort to understand how the physical structure of our DNA influences human biology, Northwestern investigators and the 4D Nucleome Project have unveiled the most detailed maps to date ...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming medicine’s most powerful microscope, revealing patterns in human DNA that were ...

Rising demand for gene and cell therapies, expanding mRNA vaccine pipelines, and increasing investments in GMP-compliant manufacturing facilities are driving growth in the viral vectors and plasmid ...

Running out of space on your phone? Don't upgrade your cloud-storage subscription just yet. Scientists in China have discovered that images, text files and other digital data can be stored in strands ...

A US-based biotechnology company has launched the Atlas Eon 100, the first scalable service utilizing synthetic DNA for data preservation. Announced on December 2, it was developed by Atlas Data ...

For nearly 40 years, the identity of the person who sexually assaulted and killed a 30-year-old woman found along a quiet stretch of rural highway south of Denver eluded investigators. Now, small ...

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. — Trace DNA from the inside of a paper bag that had not been touched in nearly 40 years connected one of Colorado's most prolific serial killers to the 1987 killing of ...

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Mr. Giles is a novelist and the former executive Hollywood editor of Vanity Fair. Anyone who’s published a book or tried to has had even indispensable friends and family tell them why they’re not ...