According to Li-Qun Gu, DNA is an extremely compact, stable package of information. Natural DNA strands encode the biological blueprints of all life on Earth but ...

Less than 2% of the genome codes for proteins; the rest, once called 'junk DNA', contains regulatory elements. Researchers analyzed 10,000 to reveal how variants shape gene activity.

MIT researchers have built an AI language model that learns the internal coding patterns of a yeast species widely used to manufacture protein-based drugs, then rewrites gene sequences to push protein ...

Industrial yeasts are a powerhouse of protein production, used to manufacture vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, and other useful compounds. In a new study, MIT chemical engineers have harnessed artificial ...

Several years worth of findings from a floating laboratory have tapped into a well-stocked coral library of taxonomic, ...

EADaily, March 2nd, 2026. Tomsk geneticists summed up the results of a large-scale three-year study covering the Siberian ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Thomas Begley, University at Albany, State University of New York and Marlene Belfort, ...

A medieval missive crossed centuries and continents before University of Toronto researchers made a royal discovery: it was a decree from France's notorious “Spider King.” U of T’s Old Books New ...

ADRIAN WOOLFSON, scientist and founder of Genyro, has authored a brave new book, 'On the Future of Species'. Here, Woolfson examines with SUCHETA DASGUPTA the future of humanity in a world of AI ...

Author Michael Connelly and former LAPD detective Rick Jackson will discuss their contested theory linking the Zodiac ...