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With a storage capacity of 36 petabytes, a DNA-based cassette tape can hold every song every recorded, and it could be on the ...

What scientists long believed were knots in DNA may actually be persistent twists formed during nanopore analysis, revealing ...

Researchers from Kyushu University have developed an innovative computational method, called ddHodge, that can reconstruct ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.