A recent cold case that was solved in Pierce County is highlighting the importance of CODIS ― The Combined DNA Index System — that lets federal, state, and local forensic labs exchange and compare DNA ...

Since the advent of DNA testing, law enforcement agencies have been able to prosecute crimes - and exonerate the wrongly ...

This radical new method could preserve our entire knowledge base for thousands of years, in a storage medium the size of a ...

Humanity is generating data faster than it can be stored, and the hard drives and tape libraries that quietly underpin the ...

Turmoil at 23andMe, a company offering popular at-home DNA testing, has upset the industry. Following the resignation of every independent member of the company’s board of directors, its chief ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

In our current information/data age, the storage and protection of data is an extremely important part of any business venture. The degree of digital data being produced, globally, has long been ...

Turmoil at 23andMe, a company offering popular at-home DNA testing, has upset the industry. Following the resignation of every independent member of the company’s board of directors, its chief ...