Our increasingly digitized world has a data storage problem. Hard drives and other storage media are reaching their limits, ...

When doctors prescribe oxybutynin, it's usually for an unglamorous problem: bladder incontinence. But researchers have ...

Australia’s peacock spiders dazzle with colour and dance. Scientists are uncovering a genetic mystery that could explain ...

Scientists say they've begun to better understand why there are so many varieties of a colourful, dancing Australian spider.

There are key moments in Earth's history that remain shrouded in mystery. The emergence of the first molecules capable of ...

Researchers believe that's partly down to the spider's 'dark DNA' - a mysterious part of the animal's genetic code, and they ...

Sept. 10 (UPI) -- Google is celebrating the start of the 2025-26 school year with a DNA-themed Doodle on Wednesday.

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Northwestern scientists have developed a new nanostructure that supercharges CRISPR’s ability to safely and efficiently enter cells, potentially unlocking its full power to treat genetic diseases. By ...

The new system developed by Professor Chad Mirkin delivers CRISPR machinery more safely and effectively into cells.

Essentially all cells in an organism's body have the same genetic blueprint, or genome, but the set of genes that are ...

Essentially all cells in an organism's body have the same genetic blueprint, or genome, but the set of genes that are ...