DNA assembly insights could streamline design and manufacturing of nanostructures for medicine, materials and more

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have uncovered key principles that govern how DNA "origami" structures fold, ...
Science Daily

Forget 3D printing—DNA and water now build tiny machines that assemble themselves

Imagine if you could "print" a tiny skyscraper using DNA instead of steel. That’s what researchers at Columbia and Brookhaven are doing—constructing intricate 3D nanostructures by harnessing the ...

How countries can build effective DNA barcoding networks

Aligning with the International Day for Biological Diversity's theme of "Acting locally for global impact," researchers have ...
Labroots

Cyanobacteria Find Another Use for DNA

There are photosynthetic bacteria known as cyanobacteria, and these microbes helped generate the oxygen that paved the way for complex life to survive on Earth. Researchers have now found that these ...
Quanta Magazine

A Powerful New ‘QR Code’ Untangles Math’s Knottiest Knots

From the tangle in your computer cord to the mess your cat made of your knitting basket, knots are everywhere in daily life. They also pervade science, showing up in loops of DNA, intertwined polymer ...
VentureBeat

Mythos autonomously exploited vulnerabilities that survived 27 years of human review. Security teams need a new detection playbook

A 27-year-old bug sat inside OpenBSD’s TCP stack while auditors reviewed the code, fuzzers ran against it, and the operating system earned its reputation as one of the most security-hardened platforms ...
NBC 10 Philadelphia

Detectives use DNA to ID suspect in cold case murders of NJ teen, woman

After nearly three decades, investigators linked a New Jersey man to the cold case murders of a young woman and a teen girl in the mid-90s. During a press conference, on Thursday, April 9, 2026, ...
VentureBeat

Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked: here's what we know

VentureBeat made with Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Image Anthropic appears to have accidentally revealed the inner workings of one of its most popular and lucrative AI products, the agentic AI harness Claude ...
Ars Technica

Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories

Researchers say they’ve discovered a supply-chain attack flooding repositories with malicious packages that contain invisible code, a technique that’s flummoxing traditional defenses designed to ...
ascopubs.org

The Pathologic Response Evaluation and Detection in Circulating Tumor-DNA Study: Ultrasensitive Circulating Tumor-DNA Assessment of Breast Cancer Minimal Residual Disease

Is Unmutated IgG1 a Wrong Choice for Therapeutic Antibodies Targeting Immune Checkpoints? Lessons From the Clinical Failures of the First Anti–TIGIT Antibodies Of 227 enrolled patients, 220 were ...
Stars and Stripes

VA plans to scan a million veterans claims for signs of fraud

WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to launch an automated fraud-detection tool to scan more than a million disability benefits questionnaires for evidence of fabrication or other ...