Unlike computer code that sits on a device and does what it's told, lab-engineered genes can multiply on their own. While ...

The discovery of all five nucleobases on Ryugu strengthens the idea that life’s molecular ingredients formed in space before ...

The AI conversation is still too narrowly framed. Most debates assume intelligence is fundamentally computational, that ...

Doctors take a sample of the baby’s blood, usually by pricking its heel, and test for proteins and other markers associated with illnesses such as sickle-cell anemia or cystic fibrosis. The most ...

Researchers have spent decades—and billions of dollars—sequencing animal and crop genomes, but fungi have historically been the forgotten middle child of genomics, only noticed when they're ruining ...

Professor Jason Chin, founder and Chief Scientific Office of Cambridge-based Constructive Bio, has won the 2026 Heinrich ...

Gene editing has delivered remarkable results against sickle cell disease. Now researchers are working to make these ...

A handful of start-up firms are testing therapies that target specific epigenetic markers to treat everything from high ...

The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has developed new portable field devices that will allow soldiers to identify unknown ...

Having the right conditions and raw material for life does not mean that life can originate or arise by chance.

A service pioneered at Addenbrooke’s Hospital that will enable up to three times more cancer patients to benefit from whole ...

Jason Chin, founder and CSO of Constructive Bio, and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at the University of ...