Scientists have identified the molecular interactions that give spider silk its exceptional strength and flexibility, opening the door to new bio-inspired materials for aircraft, protective clothing ...

DNA nanostructures store and encrypt data using physical shape, enabling fast electronic readout and secure molecular ...

For decades, biologists have known that the instructions for life are written in DNA, yet the vast majority of those letters seemed to sit in the dark, doing little that was obvious. Now a new ...

Over the past two decades, researchers have learned that DNA inside the cell nucleus naturally folds into a network of ...