Every living organism has its own genetic "blueprint": the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. This blueprint is known as a genome. When scientists sequence a genome, they identify ...

Environmental exposure to thousands of synthetic chemicals poses a growing challenge for public health, largely because their ...

In 2024, two scientists from Google DeepMind shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry for an artificial-intelligence program called AlphaFold2. For decades, scientists had struggled to understand how ...

T cell therapy, a type of immunotherapy that leverages the immune system to combat diseases, is a powerful treatment option for certain cancers.

For decades, biologists have known that the instructions for life are written in DNA, yet the vast majority of those letters seemed to sit in the dark, doing little that was obvious. Now a new ...

University of Kentucky researchers are using an innovative technique called data sonification to transform complex biological ...

By combining large-scale experiments with deep learning, researchers built a lightweight model that deciphers how regulatory DNA controls gene activity.

Gene regulation is far more predictable than previously believed, scientists conclude after developing deep learning model PARM. This might bring an ...

Gene regulation is far more predictable than previously believed, scientists conclude after developing the deep learning ...

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a revolutionary gene-editing method using bacterial retrons that can correct multiple disease-causing mutations at once. Unlike ...

In 2018, a nervous-looking He Jiankui took the stage at a scientific conference in Hong Kong. A hush settled over the packed auditorium as the soft-spoken Chinese scientist adjusted his microphone and ...

Nearly a year after the shocking deaths of Hollywood icon Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, at their compound in Santa Fe, N.M., the couple’s 53-acre estate is coming on the market for $6.25 ...