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

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 ...

After a spinal cord injury, cells in the brain and spinal cord change to cope with stress and repair tissue. A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Neuroscience, shows that this ...

Researchers demonstrated that it is feasible to encode executable payloads into synthetic DNA that, once sequenced and ...

The scientists working on the DNA cassette coated the partitions with a crystal shell made from a metal-organic framework, ...

The DNA inside of living organisms is packed with information, so much so that it's hard to search genetic databases, but there may be a solution.

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

This radical new method could preserve our entire knowledge base for thousands of years, in a storage medium the size of a coffee cup.

Technologies needed for tracing engineered biothreats back to their sources are advancing rapidly. Here are some ...

After a spinal cord injury, cells in the brain and spinal cord change to cope with stress and repair tissue. A new study from ...

Around 25 million Americans have rare genetic diseases, and many of them struggle with not only a lack of effective ...

Scientists have sequenced RNA from a nearly 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth leg, the oldest ancient RNA ever recovered. These ...