Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is? A recent ...

A judge in New York rejected a request on 23 September to disqualify the use of cutting-edge DNA sequencing as evidence in a ...

Some crimes seemed impossible to solve—until genetic genealogy came into play.

In an unprecedented leap in scientific discovery, a new lifeform has been constructed using a mere 57 genetic instructions.

In a heartwrenching series of testimonies, the House Democratic Policy Committee heard about the factors influencing infant ...

Vacuoles, E1 enzyme, X-linked, autoinflammatory, and somatic (VEXAS) syndrome is a newly identified disorder caused by an ...

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Colossal Biosciences has just had a major breakthrough in its attempt to revive the dodo bird from extinction. What are the ...

In this important work, the authors present a new transformer-based neural network designed to isolate and quantify higher-order epistasis in protein sequences. They provide solid evidence that higher ...

Complementing previous work (Namiki et al, 2018), this study provides an important resource for the Drosophila community as it reports 500 lines targeting descending neurons (DN), in addition to ...

Chicken salad is not exempt from being recalled from grocery stores. These are some of the worst chicken salad-related ...

Scientists can now zoom in on protein segments in living cells, tracking changes linked to early disease and aiding drug screening for aggregation disorders. The research team engineered a fluorescent ...