Almost 20 years ago, James Randerson ordered a sequence of smallpox DNA. Smallpox is the only human disease to have ever been successfully eradicated — 46 years ago as of yesterday. It’s one of the ...

Scientists have taken a bold and controversial step toward creating synthetic human DNA from scratch, a move some critics liken to 'playing God.' The research aims to unlock new treatments for ...

Researchers from prestigious institutions in New York and Ningbo, China, have unveiled a remarkable development: self-replicating nanorobots made entirely of DNA (via Phys.org). These tiny but potent ...

Similarly to the artistic technique of folding paper into ornate shapes, DNA origami is a self-assembling technique of precisely folding single-stranded DNA scaffolds into well-defined nanostructures.