Emily Leproust, PhD, co-founder and CEO of Twist Bioscience, spoke with MIT Technology Review about why DNA strands may be the next frontier in the emerging data storage market. Here are six things to ...

One night a few years ago, two biologists sat in a bar in Hamburg, discussing DNA. Ewan Birney, the associate director of the European Bioinformatics Institute, and Nick Goldman, a research scientist ...

This October 17, 2017, image courtesy of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard shows Breakthrough Prize-winning US molecular biologist David Liu, who is at the forefront of pioneering work in gene ...

Robert Plomin’s book Blueprint is subtitled How DNA makes us who we are. But a more accurate subtitle might be How DNA makes us what we are rather than anything else, such as childhood. As Plomin says ...

(Nanowerk News) A recent study by researchers from Peking University demonstrates the potential of nuclear electric resonance to control the nuclear spins of nitrogen atoms in DNA using electric field ...

MSP: Methylation-specific PCR; MSRE: Methylation-sensitive restriction endonucleases; QMSP: Quantitative, methylation-specific PCR; X: Methylation associated with prognosis. Mohammad Obaidul Hoque, ...

The growing sophistication of tumor molecular profiling has helped to slowly transition oncologic care toward a more personalized approach in different tumor types, including in bladder cancer. The ...

As the world continues to generate data at an unprecedented rate, the search for efficient storage solutions has intensified. Traditional hard drives, once the backbone of digital storage, are now ...

BETHESDA, MD. (April 25, 2025) — The umbilical cord may become a crystal ball of sorts, helping doctors predict the future of children at risk for long-term health problems, including diabetes, stroke ...

Does heart disease or cancer run in your family? MUSC researchers have created a program to identify whether you’re at an increased genetic risk for developing these conditions. The top two causes of ...