Srikanth Velamakanni, co-founder and group CEO of Fractal, recently shared a pivotal moment from the company’s early days, calling it “the worst mistake of my life.” In a LinkedIn post, he recounted ...

Each of us has enough DNA to reach from here to the sun and back, more than 300 times. How is all of that DNA packaged so tightly into chromosomes and squeezed into a tiny nucleus? Histones are a ...

A quantum version of a fractal pattern, known as "Hofstadter's butterfly," has long been predicted, but the new study marks the first time it has been directly observed experimentally in a real ...

A team has used a process known as DNA origami to make electrochemical sensors that can quickly detect and measure biomarkers. Using an approach called DNA origami, scientists at Caltech have ...

I was one of the first to spit into a test tube, giving up my DNA forever to learn more about my health and heredity. You know, the ones that promise to connect you with distant relatives you didn ...

There are a few things in Ash where the thought was, “Well, people are going to want to know it’s my movie, that it’s still me in here.” I dropped some things in just so you know, oh yes, this is the ...

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