A traditional cassette tape holds roughly 10 to 12 songs on each side, but 328 feet of this DNA cassette tape could hold the ...

Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps share 98.8% of their DNA. But is this actually true? And what does "similar ...

America is awesome at science. For as long as most of us have been alive, United States scientists have published more ...

A rtificial intelligence is software, but it is not human-designed and hand-crafted like any traditional program is. Instead, modern AI is grown, a bit like an organism. In important ways, the ...

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The Age of AI will rely on massive volumes of data that can be easily stored and retrieved—and bioscience may have an ingenious solution. A scientist examines a DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) profile on ...

Scientists at Kyoto University have uncovered a hidden protein complex that organizes DNA in sperm stem cells, a discovery that reveals surprising ties between fertility and cancer. When this protein, ...

The legendary atheist and evolutionary biologist argues that truth shouldn't bend to faith or fashionable politics.

When scientists cracked the human genome in 2003—sequencing the entire genetic code of a human being—many expected it would unlock the secrets of disease. But genetics explained only about 10% of the ...

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To make the behavior of DNA understandable and predictable, the researchers combine lab experiments with computer simulations ...

A CRISPR system detects rare cancer mutations in blood with single-nucleotide precision, outperforming ddPCR through ...