Scientists have just discovered an entirely new way that DNA can be synthesized. The business of constructing DNA ...

Serif Biomedicines has emerged from stealth with $50 million in start-up funding. The new firm is developing what it calls ...

For more than a century, Neanderthals have been cast as a vanished side branch of the human family tree, a brief encounter in our deep past. The latest high resolution Neanderthal genome, combined ...

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

New research suggests DNA may not need activation, challenging a long-held idea about how life began and reshaping ...

In a way, sequencing DNA is very simple: There's a molecule, you look at it, and you write down what you find. You'd think it would be easy—and, for any one letter in the sequence, it is. The problem ...