Tag: #DNA
The life code that will reshape the future
We all know about Moore's Law, but many of us don't know about the trend dwarfing Moore's Law and what it means for our...
Scientists Are Using CRISPR To “Program” Living Cells
Scientists from the University of Washington have constructed digital logic gates in living cells. Though they're not the first to do so, the researchers'...
The Best of 2013 // #85: Four-Stranded Human DNA
While describing the discovery of DNA, biologist James Watson and Francis Crick presented the image of a twisting pair of strands they called the...
Best of 2018: CRISPR CasRx
So far, CRISPR and CRISP-Cas9 have all been about editing DNA. RNA, however, could also be used to treat many diseases, possible better. Enter...
Old Kings and New Technologies
The skull of King Richard the Third has been found under a parking lot in Leicester, England. Yes, we realize that this isn’t really...
The Best of 2013 // #100: Genome Changes in Days From...
Genetic evolution is usually seen as a slow process, happening over multiple generations. A study published in June, however, indicated that some populations can...
The Best of 2015 // #98: The Brain that Changes itself
The human brain is an amazing thing; it continually juggles the incoming data from new experiences and moments in each and every day with...
Best of 2016 // #98: The New Tree of Life
A small, shallow aquifer under the Colorado River's floodplain doesn't seem like a place to hunt for new forms of life. It turns out,...
