Diagnosing genetic disorders and devising personalised therapies just got a lot easier, or at least quicker. Panasonic and Belgian research lab IMEC have created a small chip that tests DNA in under an hour. Read More >>

We probably all vaguely assume that computers will overthrow us someday, which may be why it's so unsettling to learn that computer code is evolving much like genetic code. By comparing bacterial genomes to Linux, researchers have found "survival of the fittest" acting in computer programming. Read More >>

The increasingly ambiguous divide between man and machine just got blurred that much more with Stanford's recent announcement: scientists have successfully created the first truly biological transistor made entirely out of genetic material. Read More >>

When scientists Phillipe Horvath and Rodolphe Barrangou set out to find a better way to make yogurt, they didn't expect to stumble across one of the future's most promising discoveries: a super protein that can accurately cut DNA — and could perhaps revolutionise genetic engineering. Read More >>

It turns out that the human cells scientists have studied the most, and used in research for more than 60 years have some unexpected and pretty intense genetic mutations. Good thing they weren't used as part of 60,000 published papers. They were? Oh geez. Read More >>

If you've made your way through school biology, you're probably familiar with the basics of DNA. It's the blueprint for your being, man. Read More >>

On the morning of February 28th, 1953, two men quietly made history in the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University. Sixty years ago today, Watson and Crick discovered DNA — and changed the face of biological science in the process. Read More >>

It's probably not something you think about a lot, but we all leave pieces of ourselves everywhere we go. Flakes of skin here, a renegade hair there, the occasional boogie, they all leave some of your DNA behind. And while it normally goes untouched, someone could use it to say, 3D-print an approximation of your face. Read More >>

A team of archaeologists from the University of Leicester has announced that the remains of a body found beneath a parking lot in Leicester in fact belong to ancient British King, Richard III. Read More >>

Horse meat-gate very nearly hit one of the big burger chains, with high street meat shop Burger King admitting to finding horse DNA in burgers at one of its suppliers. It has apologised, saying none of the dodgy meat actually made it into customers' gobs. Read More >>

Scientists from the European Bioinformatics Institute are squeezing unparalleled amounts of data in to synthetic DNA, and now they've achieved something absolutely amazing: they can store 2.2 petabytes of information in a single gram of DNA, and recover it with 100 per cent accuracy. Read More >>

2012 has been a good year for elaborate marriage proposals but none more impressive perhaps than this anonymous scientist's efforts. He bent the molecular instructions for life itself to his will—or as IOKTBS explains, "DNA amplified to different sized fragments via the polymerase chain reaction, and then seperated [sic] by size on a gel." Either way, it obviously worked. Check out the full image below. Read More >>

Mapping out your genome is the 21st Century equivalent of staring deep inside your soul; it's tempting to look, but terrifying what you might find. The DNA divers at 23andMe are hoping that slashing the price of their home-testing service—from $300 (£186) down to $100 (£62)—will be enough to tilt the scales towards discovery. Are they right? Read More >>

You. Yes you. Don't sit around looking so smug. You're not perfect—and now, scientists have the evidence to back up that very claim. Read More >>

The form in this picture is familiar—it's a double helix, the basis for life, and we've seen it over and over. But in 1952, James Watson and Francis Crick laid eyes on these strands for the very first time. Read More >>