biological engineering Scientists accidentally made Pac-man ghosts out of DNA Origami Thom Dunn

zoos When you go to the zoo, you are breathing the DNA of the animals inside it Mark Frauenfelder

dna Should we mix human and animal DNA? Devin Nealy

wurst decisions Gentleman who left DNA on half-eaten sausage at crime scene caught 9 years later Carla Sinclair

fossil DNA Oldest DNA sequenced yet comes from million-year-old mammoths Miss Cellania

ambidexterity At least 41 DNA regions affect left-handedness Andrea James

gene therapy Scientists have successfully performed CRISPR gene editing in a live human body for the first time ever Thom Dunn

dna surveillance Trump administration to begin taking DNA samples from migrants crossing border or in detention for federal criminal database Xeni Jardin

forensics Armed robber who face-planted into Pizza Hut door left DNA, cops say Xeni Jardin

genetic New federal rules will limit police searches of DNA ancestry databases Xeni Jardin

codis Lessons from testing decades of forgotten rape kits: serial rapists are common, they don't follow a pattern, they're not very bright, and they're often the same men who commit acquaintance rape Cory Doctorow

DNA testing China uses DNA tech to spy on people. Yale geneticist and a U.S. biotech helped. Xeni Jardin

cognitive psychology Scientists discover hundreds of new genes that may affect cognitive ability Andrea James

rats New York's rat population has genetically diverged into "uptown" and "downtown" subpopulation Cory Doctorow

genotype Why race is not a thing, according to genetics Andrea James

Taste Test What does DNA taste like? An investigation Andrea James

Finding Your Roots Watch Larry David and Bernie Sanders learn they're cousins Rusty Blazenhoff

genes Childhood trauma may permanently alter human DNA in some Andrea James

computing Researchers encoded a film clip in DNA and store it inside a living cell David Pescovitz