Ancient evidence suggests a new twist in how we all got here.

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

How does your body produce millions of antibodies from one genome? New research reveals how two closely related proteins help ...

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.