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

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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 ...

“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 ...

Every living cell, from the simplest bacterium to a human neuron, relies on the same basic machinery to read, interpret, and use its DNA. This molecular machinery is so fundamental that life as we ...

The viruses were able to function and proliferate. In a new study, researchers showed that they could use AI to design 16 functioning viruses not found in nature. The new research fuels concerns that ...

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 ...