The first CRISPR experiment to take place in space shows that DNA can repair itself in microgravity. As part of the "Genes In Space-6" experiment, astronauts on board the International Space Station ...

June Wang, a Weill Cornell Medicine lab technician, views a sample of human sperm. She's preparing to try to edit the DNA in the sample with a gene-editing technique called CRISPR. (Elias Williams for ...

The process of bacterial transformation involves the introduction of foreign plasmid DNA into a bacterial cell. The transformation of DNA into bacteria cells, for example, Escherichia coli (E. coli), ...

DNA Day experiments at Cleveland School of Arts Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine volunteers, grad students and faculty helped out on DNA Day, where they went to 12 Cleveland ...

He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s helical structure. By Delthia Ricks Franklin W. Stahl, a molecular biologist ...

Microsoft is buying ten million strands of DNA from biology startup Twist Bioscience to investigate the use of genetic material to store data. The data density of DNA is orders of magnitude higher ...