The discovery of DNA started with this overlooked scientist

In 1869, Swiss scientist Friedrich Miescher isolated a mysterious substance from cell nuclei—an overlooked finding that would ...

DeepMind’s New AI Can Read a Million DNA Letters at Once—and Actually Understand Them

Artificial intelligence has gotten a bad reputation lately, and often for good reason. But a team of scientists at Google’s ...
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What is DNA, and why it’s a key to understanding life, health, and disease: UAB experts explain how our DNA shapes who we are

DNA is often called the blueprint of life, but what does that really mean? Elizabeth Worthey, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Genetics in the Heersink School of Medicine, explains everything ...

Cells' built-in capacity limit for copying DNA could impact cancer treatment

For almost 60 years, scientists have tried to understand why DNA doesn't replicate wildly and uncontrollably every time a ...
The New York Times

The DNA Helix Changed How We Thought About Ourselves

“The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we conceived of life itself. The X-ray crystallography by Rosalind Franklin ...
Live Science

This new DNA storage system can fit 10 billion songs in a liter of liquid — but challenges remain for the unusual storage format

The U.S. biotech company Atlas Data Storage has launched a synthetic DNA storage system capable of holding 1,000 times more data than traditional magnetic tape. The product, called Atlas Eon 100, ...