The new genome editing technique CRISPR-Cas9 will be used in human patients for the first time. A Chinese group of scientist have permission to enroll patients with non-small cell lung cancer for whom

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The University of Delft pushed the limits of datastorage to the level of atoms. Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) was used to push around chlorine atoms over a raster of copper atoms. The team of researchers

At this very moment the SpaceX’s Dragon cargo craft is on it's way to dock the International Space Station. Part of the cargo is a tiny DNA sequencer, called the MinION, which will be used to sequence