For nearly four billion years, life on Earth evolved blindly. Natural selection tinkered, mutations accumulated, and organisms changed without foresight or design. Evolution, as scientists often say, ...

For nearly four billion years, life on Earth evolved blindly. Natural selection tinkered, mutations accumulated, and ...

Founded in 2021, Colossal is best known for its controversial quest to revive extinct creatures such as the woolly mammoth, ...

Inside the lab where scientists want to rewrite our DNA from scratch - Artificial biological intelligence could change ...

By simplifying the engineering process and expanding what can be built, the Golden Gate method greatly broadens the possibilities for scientists working to develop bacteriophages as tools to combat ...

By blending scientific accuracy with creative design, one builder hopes to make the history of DNA accessible, interactive, ...

Sidewinder achieves highly accurate assembly of long DNA sequences from scratch, offering a new leap forward for programmable biology ...

Scientists at Google DeepMind —the company’s artificial intelligence research arm—say they’ve created an A.I. tool that can ...

From Google DeepMind’s AlphaGenome decoding DNA to India’s push for sovereign AI infrastructure, this week saw AI stretch ...

Researchers reckon it could dramatically accelerate understanding of how DNA influences disease, cancer, and drug discovery.

Once disregarded as “junk DNA,” scientists now know that this molecular dark matter is crucial for determining gene activity ...

Every time a cell divides, it must copy its entire genome so that each daughter cell inherits a complete set of DNA. During that process, enzymes known as polymerases race along the DNA to copy its ...