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

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

A genetics‑guided drug, compound 6, targets CARD9 to subtly calm gut inflammation in Crohn’s disease, pointing to safer, ...

Researchers are embarking on the RNA equivalent of the Human Genome Project, including sequencing all the chemical modifications that make cells unique.

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

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 ...

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

As investigations into Epstein’s network persist, including scrutiny of associates like Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted in 2021 for sex trafficking, the genetic emails add another layer to his enigmatic ...

Population penetrance of inherited retinal degeneration variants is significantly lower than was previously believed.

Life runs on instructions you never see. Every cell reads DNA, turns that message into RNA, and then builds proteins that ...

New research published in Scientific Reports provides evidence that the path from genetic predisposition to general ...

Google DeepMind released AlphaGenome on January 28, an AI model that predicts how DNA sequences translate into biological functions, processing up to one million base-pairs at once and outperforming ...