DNA could revolutionize how we store our data

The Age of AI will rely on massive volumes of data that can be easily stored and retrieved—and bioscience may have an ingenious solution.
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How long does DNA last?

The world's oldest DNA comes from a 2.4 million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland. Will scientists eventually sequence even older DNA?
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DNA sequence once overlooked as ‘junk’ found to drive human chromosome fusions

Leonardo Gomes de Lima, Ph.D., a postdoctoral associate in the Gerton Lab, led the research. The findings show how these chromosome fusions form, why they remain stable, and how repetitive DNA, once ...
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Scientists Sequenced the DNA of the ‘Last Neanderthal’—and It Alters Human History

In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, lead by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the ...
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Scientists Investigate the Bacteria That Colonized Extinct Mammoths—and Uncover the Oldest Known Microbial DNA From a Host

Nicolás Rascován, a geneticist at the Pasteur Institute in France who was not involved with the research but did help ...

Bridge recombinases, optimized for human cells, enable massive programmable DNA rearrangements

For decades, gene-editing science has been limited to making small, precise edits to human DNA, akin to correcting typos in ...