Stay up to date on the latest science with Brush Up Summaries. Article reviewed by Ninning Liu, PhD from the Wyss Institute at Harvard University. Similar to retail stores that use standardized barcodes to differentiate the thousands of items they sell ...

In Odesa, at one of Ukraine's forensic centers equipped for DNA identification, 2,300 bodies – handed over by the Russians under an agreement struck in June 2025 – wait inside refrigerated railway cars to be identified.

The Age of AI will rely on massive volumes of data that can be easily stored and retrieved—and bioscience may have an ingenious solution. A scientist examines a DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) profile on a screen. Shakespeare’s entire catalog of sonnets ...