Music fans can now create a DNA chart with their favourite artists on Spotify and here’s how to do it. Spotify users on TikTok are sharing their own music DNA charts and they’ve even posted tutorials ...

DNA has been humanity’s go-to data repository for millennia. Tough and compact, it is so information-dense that just one gram of it can hold enough data for 10 million hours of high-definition video.

Over the past 10 years, researchers led by FU Qiaomei from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have used ancient DNA (aDNA) ...

On May 27, 1961, Heinrich Matthaei, a postdoc working with NIH scientist Marshal Nirenberg, placed synthetic polyuracil RNA into 20 test tubes to see what it would produce. Each tube contained ...

Canadian researchers have unraveled a genetic "code within a code" that helps explain how the instructions for building complex organisms, like humans, can be found in a small number of genes.

What better way to celebrate DNA Day than to get up close and personal with the four letter code with trillion dollar potential? And a startup that may have a key to unlock it. “Elegen is going to ...

Two scientists think we can safeguard the world's knowledge against an apocalypse if we store it in DNA. How far-fetched is the idea? Ed Yong meets them to find out. Neither Ewan Birney nor Nick ...

With GROVER, a new large language model trained on human DNA, researchers could now attempt to decode the complex information hidden in our genome. GROVER treats human DNA as a text, learning its ...