This video starts with a simple question — does life really need DNA? — and then turns it into something much bigger. From ...

Did DNA and life itself really arise spontaneously in puddles or undersea vents 3.8 billion years ago, or is this a sign that ...

All life on Earth, from bacteria to blue whales, writes its genetic instructions using the same four-letter alphabet. These ...

More than two decades after scientists first sequenced the entire human genome—all 3 billion base pairs, of DNA code—the ...

Scientists have demonstrated RNA polymerase can read eight genetic letters. This enzyme accurately transcribes synthetic DNA, ...

Researchers at UC San Diego have demonstrated that a key cellular enzyme can accurately read an eight-letter genetic alphabet ...

Scientists may be able to add capabilities gradually instead of rebuilding life's operating system all at once.

The break in the unsolved murder case came from a cigarette butt. On June 16, the police in Tacoma, Wash., pulled over the ...

On the latest episode of “The Astounding Pop Mech Show,” Andrew Daniels, Shawn Gorman, and John Gilpatrick discuss the possibility of using DNA to solve the data center crisis.

Following the terrorist attacks, a small staff of software programmers and computer scientists in Ann Arbor worked around the ...

Nearly every cell in the human body contains essentially the same genetic information, yet different cells activate different genes. For regulatory proteins to reach these genes, DNA must be ...