Scientists show DNA polymerases can build long, patterned DNA without a template, opening new paths for synthetic biology and ...

New research has discovered that the molecular machines responsible for copying our DNA have a surprising hidden talent: an ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have caught DNA-copying enzymes generating long stretches of genetic code without ...

Zettabytes—that’s 10 21 bytes—of data are currently generated every year. All of those cat videos have to be stored somewhere, and DNA is a great storage medium; it has amazing data density and is ...

Linear DNA templates let researchers bypass the additional cloning, purification, linearization, or amplification steps often ...

Scientists are continuously looking for a way to improve the storage capacity on hard drives, but they might need to be ...

CRISPR-Cas9 has the reputation for being “snip happy,” for cutting and cutting a genomic site until one of the cell’s DNA repair systems finally skips a beat, leaving the site imperfectly ...

Targeted DNA editing by CRISPR technology has great potential for applications in biotechnology and gene therapy. However, precise gene editing remains a challenge largely due to insufficient control ...

With the landmark discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA came the appreciation that the molecule’s two entwined strands are complementary — each serving as a template for the other during ...