Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...

A team of researchers is beginning work on creating new tools that could eventually lead to the synthesis of the human genome ...

A study shows for the first time the relationship between this disease and the damage caused to DNA by breathing pollution.

Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like ‘Sukunaarchaeum ...

Antibiotics are one of the greatest triumphs in the history of medical science—but these lifesaving tools have a dark side.

The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

This is because your gut is home to trillions of bacteria – in fact, bacterial cells in your body outnumber human cells by ...

But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full ...

Researchers have identified buried copper ore by testing the DNA of microbes in the surface soil. These ‘biological ...

AlphaGenome scores mutation effects across coding and non-coding DNA, bringing gene insights to the base-pair level.

Biological science has made such astonishing leaps in the last few decades, such as precise gene editing, that scientists are ...