Scientists say the crystal, which is hidden in a cave in Hallstatt, Austria, won't degrade for billions of years - and can ...

After thousands of years as a highly valuable commodity, silk continues to surprise. Now it may help usher in a whole new ...

There are numerous ways to heighten durability to millions of millennia, at the DNA nucleotides and ribose it is possible to swap one, some, or all of the C element atoms at the DNA with silicon ...

The SMC5/6 complex is vital for maintaining genome stability, playing a crucial role in chromosome organization and DNA ...

Researchers have developed a method to create a two-dimensional silk protein layer on graphene, enhancing its potential in ...

Whether you’re looking to learn more about your health traits or dig deep into your familiar roots, having a DNA test done can help you learn a lot about yourself. The good thing is, these tests ...

As direct descendants of ancient bacteria, mitochondria have always been a little alien. Now a study shows that mitochondria are possibly even stranger than we thought. The study, titled "Somatic ...

The best way to go about this is with DNA testing kits. These help you learn more about your genetic makeup. The best genetic kits are from Ancestry and 23andMe. The latter was the first to offer ...

Previous DNA data storage and computing technologies could complete some but not all of these tasks. The paper, titled "A Primordial DNA Store and Compute Engine," appears in the journal Nature ...

Do you remember the first game you fell in love with? For me it was The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Some of my earliest ...

British scientists have stored DNA information for an entire human on a crystal, which could be used to bring back humanity ...

A new study finds that mitochondria in our brain cells frequently fling their DNA into the cells' nucleus, where the mitochondrial DNA integrates into chromosomes, possibly causing harm.