Tech

Electricity and CRISPR used to write data to bacterial DNA

Enlarge (credit: Rizlan Bencheikh and Bruce Arey, PNNL) In recent years, researchers have used DNA to encode everything from an operating system to malware. Rather than being a technological curiosity, these efforts were serious attempts to take advantage of DNA’s properties for long-term storage of data. DNA can remain chemically stable for hundreds of thousands […]

Business

Markets Rise as Wall Street Climbs more Satisfied with a Potential Biden presidency

There’s no argument: it’s a risk-on afternoon since the stocks markets chug greater in much of Asia and Europe, after Wednesday’s enormous earnings in the U.S.. The markets seem to be clinging to some hopes at all a stimulation deal, even a partial one, will probably do this. Meanwhile, neither side won a knockout blow […]

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Gene-editing tool Has its Inescapable Nobel

Expand / Emmanuelle Charpentier reminds everyone about penalizing safety at the beginning of a press conference after the announcement of her Nobel Prize. (charge: Pictures Alliance/Getty Pictures ) On Wednesdaythe Nobel Prize Committee awarded the Chemistry Nobel into Emmanuelle Charpentier along with Jennifer Doudna, that made crucial contributions to the growth of the CRISPR gene-editing […]