Scientists call this speck LUCA — the Last Universal Common Ancestor. Since the concept of LUCA first emerged, it has ...

"By following universal paralogs," says Kaçar, "we can connect the earliest steps of life on Earth to the tools of modern ...

Although there are striking differences between the cells that make up your eyes, kidneys, brain, and toes, the DNA blueprint for these cells is essentially the same.

Robert Hettich conducts research in ORNL's biological mass spectrometry laboratory. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Scientists at ...

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed software that reduces the time needed ...

At a time when it was assumed that there would be flying cars and sentient artificial intelligence robots living among humans, South Africa is slowly but surely asserting itself in science, ...

Vinhomes Green Paradise Can Gio is more than a coastal megacity. Within its ESG++ framework, social infrastructure evolves ...

Google DeepMind, the artificial intelligence subsidiary of Alphabet, has made another leap in its efforts to illuminate human biology: progress toward using AI to interpret the many still-mysterious c ...

Researchers showed that in C. elegans, the protein MBD-2 regulates genes through repressive histone marks rather than DNA ...

Scientists are exploring how DNA’s physical structure can store vast amounts of data and encode secure information.

That uncertainty surfaced in real life in 2022, when Google engineer Blake Lemoine became convinced that the company’s LaMDA ...