In the study of bacteria, a longstanding dogma has held that two molecular machines—RNA polymerase, which leads the way in ...
In a way, sequencing DNA is very simple: There's a molecule, you look at it, and you write down what you find. You'd think it would be easy—and, for any one letter in the sequence, it is. The problem ...
Open-access databases such as the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) contain more than 2.4 million bacterial genomes, and this number continues to grow rapidly. Until now, searching these vast ...
Scientists have created a silicon chip that can write dozens of DNA sequences simultaneously using electricity and ...
Genes inherited from the now-extinct Denisovans are actively playing a role in the immune system of some people from Oceania.
"Complex chemical processes are essential for making DNA." This long-held assumption in the field of biotechnology has been ...
Zettabytes—that’s 10 21 bytes—of data are currently generated every year. All of those cat videos have to be stored somewhere, and DNA is a great storage medium; it has amazing data density and is ...