From AI models to synthetic DNA screening and outbreak surveillance, there are several points where emerging biological risks ...

If you or someone you know has dog allergies, this news is sure to catch your attention: a pair of beagles were genetically edited to make them hypoallergenic pooches who wouldn’t trigger reactions ...

Scientists at a biotech company have used gene editing to create two hypoallergenic beagles that don't trigger allergies.

“The closer we look, the more clearly we can see that early biochemical evolution was a hybrid of enzymatic and metal catalysts,” says Joseph Moran from the University of Ottawa, Canada, an ...

In 1968, the American biochemist and geneticist Marshall Nirenberg and his colleagues won the Nobel Prize in physiology or ...

Genetic testing is helping doctors identify rare diseases earlier, opening the door to treatment options before symptoms appear.

For life to get started it may have depended on one of the rarest, and currently most expensive, metals on Earth.

RNA technology is moving beyond vaccines to enable targeted gene-editing therapies and novel treatments for complex diseases, ...

An international research team has uncovered how LUCA, the last ancestor of all life on Earth, split into the first two ...

Experts believe we somehow inherited that DNA either directly or indirectly through interbreeding between species. Whether ...

In a laboratory overlooking Fifth Ave in the heart of Oakland, unassuming machines as expensive as cars divide brain tissue from deceased patients with Alzheimer’s disease down to ...

So, figuring out how to make a new protein can mean directly tinkering with biochemistry, providing new and potentially ...