Future data centers might do away with banks of hard drives and switch to a storage medium that nature has been using for billions of years – DNA. In a major step towards making that a reality, ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Engineering, researchers have developed a revolutionary method for data storage using DNA. The paper titled “Engineering DNA Materials for Sustainable Data ...

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

Purdue University researcher Emily Dykhuizen explores how cancer takes advantage of the machinery that surrounds DNA, enabling some of its most pernicious powers, like the ability to evade the immune ...

DNA data storage has recently entered a new phase of development, as scientists in ...

Researchers from the University of California San Diego, the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have achieved groundbreaking advancements in ...

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Forward-looking: Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the natural polymer making up the genetic traits of all life forms (and many viruses) known to man. Scientists have been trying to exploit DNA's unique ...

In a recent study published in Nature Genetics, researchers created a comprehensive atlas to elucidate the combined impacts of genetic inheritance and environmental exposures on the human immune ...