There are hundreds of cell types in the human body, each with a specific role spelled out in their DNA. In theory, all it ...

In the wake of recent global health crises, environmental surveillance has become a vital “early warning system.”By testing ...

A research team led by Zhiping Weng, Ph.D., and Jill Moore, Ph.D."18, at UMass Chan Medical School, has nearly tripled the ...

Australian researchers have discovered a new way to track endangered wildlife species. The best part is that the tech involved is simple and non-invasive, allowing for more effective wildlife ...

First came AlphaFold. Now comes AlphaGenome for DNA. When scientists first sequenced the human genome in 2003, they revealed the full set of DNA instructions that make a person. But we still didn’t ...

Encoding information in DNA has long seemed like a promising way to secure data for the long term, but so far it has required an expert touch. It turns out that you don’t need to be a scientist to ...

While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells’ in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows. This means that ...

A new study shows that cancer damages its own DNA by pushing key genes to work too hard. Researchers found that the most ...

New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been a critical turning point for life on Earth. For evolutionary biologists, what most distinguishes the ...