DNA strands on tiny beads hide and reveal encrypted messages through programmable fluorescence patterns read by flow cytometry.

Proposed Endangered Species Act rollbacks and military expansions are leaving the Pacific’s most diverse coral reefs legally defenseless.

In addition to calling out now-discredited research, AHPA refuted repeated claims  that dietary supplements are not well regulated by FDA.

I’ve moved three times during my career, and each time my family settled an easy commute from my job. We stayed in Bethesda ...

No "sticky ends"? No problem. A new study by NYU chemists finds that DNA tiles can assemble into 3D structures without the ...

Around the world, scientists are exploring an unexpected solution to the growing data crisis: storing digital information in ...

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

Smithsonian researcher Sarah Johnson studies bison specimens to understand how the species’s genetic diversity changed after its decline ...

Senate Bill 1723 authorized the DPS Crime Laboratory Division to create a Rapid DNA pilot program and set deadlines for ...

A new interdisciplinary study published in Nature Communications provides the first detailed insights, from a biomolecular and archaeological perspective, into the lives of people living in Central ...

Over thousands of years of domestication, humans have moulded fruit to their liking. Today’s peaches are 16 times the size of their ancient ancestors. The 1,200 varieties of watermelon bear little ...