dna

Should you donate your DNA to help cure diseases?

How synthetic biology can improve our health, food and materials

What can DNA tests really tell us about our ancestry?

The electrical blueprints that orchestrate life

How do you know if you have a virus?

A thought experiment on the future of identity verification

Hacking bacteria to fight cancer

How does chemotherapy work?

The weird history of the "sex chromosomes"

How we're using DNA tech to help farmers fight crop diseases

The next software revolution: programming biological cells

There may be extraterrestrial life in our solar system

How close are we to eradicating HIV?

How CRISPR lets you edit DNA

The biology of gender, from DNA to the brain

The age of genetic wonder

How we're building the world's largest family tree

How to create a world where no one dies waiting for a transplant

How to build synthetic DNA and send it across the internet

How data is helping us unravel the mysteries of the brain

How we can store digital data in DNA

How digital DNA could help you make better health choices

A simple new blood test that can catch cancer early

The science of cells that never get old

Science didn't understand my kids' rare disease until I decided to study it

King Richard III: Solving a 500-year-old cold case

How early life experience is written into DNA

What you need to know about CRISPR

What will humans look like in 100 years?

How we're harnessing nature's hidden superpowers

The era of personal DNA testing is here

Gene editing can now change an entire species -- forever

Clues to prehistoric times, found in blind cavefish

How to read the genome and build a human being

We can reprogram life. How to do it wisely

The ethical dilemma of designer babies