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This Revolutionary DNA Extractor Cracks Your Genetics In Minutes

Pulling DNA from the cell that surrounds it may be a vital process to modern genomics, but it’s also a cumbersome and time-consuming pain in the arse, “like collecting human hairs using a construction crane,” as Jae-Hyun Chung, UW associate professor of mechanical engineering, puts it. Not anymore, though. His handheld device will suck DNA straight from your bodily fluids in a matter of minutes.


Sequence Your DNA In An Hour On This Tiny Chip

Diagnosing genetic disorders and devising personalised therapies just got a lot easier, or at least quicker. Panasonic and Belgian research lab IMEC have created a small chip that tests DNA in under an hour.


DNA Is The Linux Of The Natural World

We probably all vaguely assume that computers will overthrow us someday, which may be why it’s so unsettling to learn that computer code is evolving much like genetic code. By comparing bacterial genomes to Linux, researchers have found “survival of the fittest” acting in computer programming.


New DNA-Based Transistor Brings Us One Step Closer To True Human Computers

The increasingly ambiguous divide between man and machine just got blurred that much more with Stanford’s recent announcement: scientists have successfully created the first truly biological transistor made entirely out of genetic material.


The Super Protein That Can Cut DNA And Revolutionise Genetic Engineering

When scientists Phillipe Horvath and Rodolphe Barrangou set out to find a better way to make yoghurt, they didn’t expect to stumble across one of the future’s most promising discoveries: a super protein that can accurately cut DNA. It’s a finding that could revolutionise genetic engineering.


The Human Cells We Use For Research Are Kind Of A Genetic Disaster

It turns out that the human cells scientists have studied the most and used in research for more than 60 years have some unexpected and pretty intense genetic mutations. Good thing they weren’t used as part of 60,000 published papers. They were? Oh geez.


DNA Finally Gets A Beautiful Explainer Befitting Its Mystifying Elegance

If you’ve made your way through high school biology, you’re probably familiar with the basics of DNA. It’s the blueprint for your being, man.


Watson And Crick Discovered DNA 60 Years Ago

On the morning of February 28, 1953, two men quietly made history in the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University. Sixty years ago today, Watson and Crick discovered DNA — and changed the face of biological science in the process.


Someone Out There Is 3D-Printing Faces With Discarded DNA Scraps

It’s probably not something you think about a lot, but we all leave pieces of ourselves everywhere we go. Flakes of skin here, a renegade hair there, the occasional loogie, they all leave some of your DNA behind. And while it normally goes untouched, someone could use it to say, 3D-print an approximation of your face.


Scientists Confirm Skeleton Found In Parking Lot Is King Richard III

A team of archaeologists from the University of Leicester has announced that the remains of a body found beneath a parking lot in Leicester, UK, in fact belongs to ancient British king Richard III.


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