New studies of genetic material, or eDNA, shed by plants and animals are providing astonishing biological insights. A large cluster of purple stove-pipe sponges in the Caribbean. These filter feeders ...

DNA is the molecular basis of heredity, the inherited traits that pass between generations in a person's family tree. Embodied in the sequence of base pairs, DNA carries information between ...

Neural networks are computing systems designed to mimic both the structure and function of the human brain. Caltech researchers have been developing a neural network made out of strands of DNA instead ...