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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: We are generating staggering amounts of data every day. Data centers just can’t keep up with the demand. With data storage needs expected to soar in ...

Markus Levin is the co-founder of XYO, with over 15 years of experience in building, growing and selling companies. Digital cues constantly surround our everyday lives. Think about how our phones ...

In the time it takes to process thousands of tips and chase down leads, serial offenders can strike again. That's why forensic expert David Mittelman is arguing the rapid DNA breakthroughs in the ...

Researchers from Karolinska Institutet have discovered how mammalian cells prevent the gradual buildup of harmful mutations in mitochondrial DNA, the small but vital genome that powers every cell. The ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — The Spokane Police Department said on Wednesday that it has identified the suspect accused of assaulting and killing a woman in 1997. SPD says on the morning of January 3, 1997, ...

“The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we conceived of life itself. The X-ray crystallography by Rosalind Franklin ...

Chemists at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have found a new use for deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), not just as genetic material, but as a tool for more efficient production of medicinal ...

France’s trove of DNA profiles has helped solve high-profile crimes and was used to find some of the Louvre suspects, and it is growing. The police can also access other countries’ databases. By ...

Scientists found that DNA’s phosphate groups can direct chemical reactions to make the correct mirror-image form of drug molecules. This breakthrough simplifies chiral drug production, reducing waste ...