"Complex chemical processes are essential for making DNA." This long-held assumption in the field of biotechnology has been ...

In the rapid and fast-growing world of nanotechnology, researchers are continually on the lookout for new building blocks to push innovation and discovery to scales much smaller than the tiniest speck ...

Work has begun on something once-unthinkable: creating human DNA from scratch. Artificial DNA has long been an ethical minefield, with fears of a generation of ‘designer babies’ with pick ‘n’ mix ...

Silicon chips have powered computing for half a century. Increasingly, they are also becoming platforms to read and manipulate biology at scale – recording from many neurons, reading many DNA ...

I have always been fascinated by genetics, a branch of biology that helps explain everything from the striking resemblance between different members of a family to the fact that strawberry plants are ...