Investigators reveal how they were able to identify a missing animal using a database of lions in Zimbabwe.

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Scientists have discovered that DNA behaves in a surprising way when squeezed through tiny nanopores, overturning a long-held assumption in genetics research. What researchers once thought were knots causing messy electrical signals turn out to be something else entirely: twisted coils called plectonemes,

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Scientists are exploring how DNA’s physical structure can store vast amounts of data and encode secure information.

Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard laboratory technology.

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