Animals are disappearing from the planet at an alarming rate. Each day, an estimated 200 species go extinct. Some of the ...

Google DeepMind's VP of Research, Pushmeet Kohli, suggests that AI's next major biological breakthrough could be understanding the complex code within human DNA.

BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have launched an ambitious international megascience project to decode the genetic blueprint of ...

Since the dawn of the computer age, researchers have wrestled with two persistent challenges: how to store ever-increasing ...

Engineered DNA can store massive amounts of data while also encrypting it, opening the door to ultra-secure, long-term ...

Scientists are exploring how DNA’s physical structure can store vast amounts of data and encode secure information.

Although there are striking differences between the cells that make up your eyes, kidneys, brain and toes, the DNA blueprint for these cells is essentially the same. Where do those differences come ...

Since the computer age began, storing and securing escalating data volumes has been a headache. But that problem could potentially be solved using DNA.

Robert Hettich conducts research in ORNL's biological mass spectrometry laboratory. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Scientists at ...