“When the first draft of the human genome was completed . . . it became immediately clear that while we had the primary sequence of the genome, or we had a draft of it . . . we needed to have an ...

An international team of molecular biologists, computer scientists and physicists has found a way to encode useable digital data onto DNA strands 350 times faster than current approaches. In their ...

Six papers on the ENCODE project are published in the September 6 issue of A massive international collaboration has enabled scientists to assign specific functions for 80 percent of the human genome, ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Remember that news-making ENCODE study with ...