Scientists have taken a major step toward mimicking nature’s tiniest gateways by creating ultra-small pores that rival the dimensions of biological ion channels—just a few atoms wide. The breakthrough ...

Rebecca Schulman is a professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Hopkins who is currently working on developing new materials that both contain and process information. Schulman recently ...

Biocomputing is transitioning to deployment, shifting from research to real-world use in healthcare and industrial biotechnology. Key opportunities include DNA and RNA computing for data storage and ...

Penn State engineers fuse synthetic DNA and perovskite to build ultra-efficient memristors that could shrink power use and supercharge data processing for future electronics.

Running out of space on your phone? Don't upgrade your cloud-storage subscription just yet. Scientists in China have discovered that images, text files and other digital data can be stored in strands ...

Gene therapy holds the promise of preventing and curing disease by manipulating gene expression within a patient's cells. However, to be effective, the new gene must make it into a cell's nucleus. The ...