More and more species are becoming endangered and facing the threat of extinction because of human activities. To ensure that these species aren't lost forever, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is ...

A tiny space shuttle made out of DNA "LEGO bricks" shows how scientists could someday build new technologies on the smallest scales. Single DNA strands became "LEGO bricks " that could assemble ...

With the technique called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), scientists can make multiple copies of a specific genetic sequence within DNA. PCR is a powerful tool for researchers because it allows for ...

Pasadena, Calif.–Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and IBM’s Almaden Research Center have developed a new technique to orient and position self-assembled DNA shapes and ...

Synthetic biologists are the computer programmers of biology. Their code? DNA. The whole enterprise sounds fantastical: you insert new snippets of DNA code—in the form of a chain of A, T, C, G letters ...

The research uses DNA molecules to arrange carbon nanotubes into a grid that might function as a data storage device or to perform calculations. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, ...

Researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute have coaxed single strands of DNA to fit together like Lego bricks and form scores of complex three-dimensional shapes, including a teeny-tiny space shuttle.

It’s no secret that computers can smoke humans at chess. And now, as if to further mock our mere organic forms, scientists say they’ve created a computer made out of DNA that can play the board game — ...

Researchers have used microscopic strands of DNA to guide the assembly of gel blocks that are visible to the naked eye. Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate ...

A team of scientists is working on an experimental vaccine that hijacks your DNA to build up resistance to the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. It’s still a work in progress, but the idea is to ...

Dr Shelley Wickham (left) and Dr Minh Luu review an image from the T12 transmission electron microscope of the University of Sydney Microscopy and Microanalysis facility. Researchers at the University ...

Looking for a way to continually shrink computer chips while still squeezing more transistors onto them, IBM scientists are working on a whole new way to build processors — using DNA. For the past ...