DNA may help out in the hunt for dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up 25 percent of the universe. A team of physicists and biologists—including George Church, a pioneer in personal genomics—have proposed a dark matter detector that uses hanging strands of custom-printed DNA to spot abnormal particles called WIMPs. If it works, the DNA-based detector would be smaller and cheaper than existing detectors, with a resolution 1000 times greater.
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