Swiss scientists have discovered encasing DNA in glass and chilling it down can preserve data encoded in it for millions of years, moving them closer to an entirely new, and better, way to store the… Read more »
The San Francisco startup recently received $31.1 million in funding from investors and DARPA to develop an automated, highly efficient platform for gene manufacturing. Read more »
Just like internet cookies went from major privacy concern to an accepted part of web browsing, the sharing of personal information like location and DNA will become more acceptable once people… Read more »
The effort to dig out the data in our genomes has led to a rash of discoveries announced Wednesday, but amid the scientific insights are cultural ones that speak to how… Read more »
Wyss Institute researchers have broken all previous records for DNA storage, encoding 700 terabytes of data into a gram of DNA. Why DNA storage? It’s incredibly dense and resilient, but it’s… Read more »
Online genealogy service Ancestry.com is trying to become like the Amazon or Netflix of family trees. Much like those companies use customer data to recommend products or movies customers might like,… Read more »
Applied DNA Sciences thinks it has created the perfect tool for identifying attempts to counterfeit or steal goods along the supply chain. It’s mobile meets cloud computing meets big data, and… Read more »
Obama says technology will save health care, and it’s true that IT is quickly becoming a medical resource: Google, which recently launched an online medical records service, claims that online search… Read more »