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Synthetic biologist Kate Adamala said the discovery is a “holy grail” in engineering biology because engineered cells could ...

In cancer research, one person's junk is increasingly becoming another person's treasure. Scientists have uncovered new evidence showing how recently evolved "junk DNA" genetic elements can become ...

From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.

Angela Belcher, the James Mason Crafts Professor of Biological Engineering and a professor of materials science at MIT, ...

In 822 deceased older adults from ROS and MAP, researchers linked stable psychological traits to multi-omic molecular ...

Gene editing of plant DNA has the potential to produce crops with increased performance and resilience, but it can take a ...

The biggest names in artificial intelligence just co-signed a letter asking the US government to do something they almost never ask for: more regulation. Not on AI models themselves, but on the ...

For years, she was known only as a Jane Doe. Traditional investigations led nowhere, and her identity seemed lost forever. Then the DNA Doe Project took on one of its most challenging cases, using ...

Biohub, the non-profit research organization co-founded by Priscilla Chan, MD, and Mark Zuckerberg, has now unveiled the latest update to the ESM protein language model family, with expanded ...

These authors have equally contributed to this work. Bipolar disorder (BD) is a major mood disorder influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. While DNA methylation from peripheral tissues ...

After centuries of mystery, scientists are edging closer to uncovering Leonardo da Vinci’s biological secrets. A massive 30-year effort has mapped his family across 21 generations, identified living ...