For decades, biology has relied on one central assumption: the genetic code is precise. DNA is transcribed into RNA, RNA is ...

AI maps fleeting DNA quadruplexes, revealing paired structures that control genes in healthy cells and cancer.

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WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research ...

These sequences are extremely prone to mutations and rank among the most functionally important regions in the entire human ...

In August, the corpses of four men were found along the banks of the river in Val-de-Marne, just outside Paris. Le Monde ...

When a doctor can't find an interpreter, many now reach for Google Translate. It seems like a practical fix to a pressing ...

Ribosomes—the tiny factories that build proteins in our cells—don't all work with the same efficiency. Researchers from Japan ...

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...

Can life exist without the very metabolic machinery that defines it? The discovery of Candidatus Sukunaarchaeum mirabile ...

It should have been a killer end to the year for Baldur’s Gate 3 maker Larian Studios. It got top billing at The Game Awards just a little over a week ago, which saw it announce a new Divinity game as ...

For years, ETH researchers have been investigating a molecular complex that plays a key role in protein synthesis. They have ...