In a remarkable fusion of biology and technology, a DNA-based computer that performs effectively has been created by ...

For billions of years, DNA has quietly carried the blueprints for all life on Earth, encoding instructions for everything from the simplest bacteria to the most complex mammals. Relative to this ...

A computer made from DNA that can solve basic chess and sudoku puzzles could one day, if scaled up, save vast amounts of energy over traditional computers when it comes to tasks like training ...

In a giant feat of genetic engineering, scientists have created bacteria that make proteins in a radically different way than all natural species do. By Carl Zimmer At the heart of all life is a code.