"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." A new method for solving forensic genetic puzzles is ten times faster than the current method ...

Ground has been broken on developing “computers” made of DNA. Researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China demonstrated that they could build DNA integrated circuits (DICs) for ...

Scientists say using math to sort through DNA could help investigators put stubborn cold cases to rest. The approach combines the relatively new field of forensic genetic genealogy—solving crime by ...

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) say they have now found a way to significantly enhance the accuracy of key information on how heat affects the stability of ...

The term ‘DNA’ immediately calls to mind the double-stranded helix that contains all our genetic information. But the individual units of its two strands are pairs of molecules bonded with each other ...

When E. coli bacteria divide, they have to separate two linked circles of DNA into two separate circles. UC Davis mathematician Mariel Vazquez and colleagues are using the mathematics of shapes ...

A novel chip automates the reaction cascades occurring between molecules inside DNA to carry out complex mathematical calculations. The field of DNA computing has evolved by leaps and bounds since it ...