A team of researchers from the University of Washington has given a new meaning to the term computer virus by coding malware directly into a DNA strand. The research team presented a paper outlining ...

From the what-could-possibly-go-wrong department: Scientists have now managed to write executable code into DNA that is theoretically capable of infecting the computer that reads it. It was only a ...

In a mind-boggling world first, a team of biologists and security researchers have successfully infected a computer with a malicious program coded into a strand of DNA. It sounds like science fiction, ...

PLEASANTON — At the IntegenX Inc. headquarters on Stoneridge Drive, employees are hard at work developing upgrades to their product: a small machine that can unravel DNA code in less than two hours.

Residents of New York State who want to send saliva for DNA testing by 23andMe should do their spitting outside state lines. The state’s health department considers 23andMe’s genome scan to be a ...