Although there are striking differences between the cells that make up your eyes, kidneys, brain and toes, the DNA blueprint ...

How does our DNA store the massive amount of information needed to build a human being? And what happens when it's stored incorrectly? Jesse Dixon, MD, Ph.D., has spent years studying the way this ...

Every living organism has its own genetic "blueprint": the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. This ...

Blaise Agüera y Arcus argues that prediction is the fundamental principle behind intelligence and “may be the whole story”.

MIT researchers have built an AI language model that learns the internal coding patterns of a yeast species widely used to ...

Key points Genomics delves into the genetic make-up of organisms, which helps us understand how they work.With new ...

Crispr’s ability to cut genetic code like scissors has just started to turn into medicines. Now, gene editing pioneer ...

A new study shows that both our genes and life experiences leave lasting epigenetic marks on immune cells, shaping how ...

EDEN (short for environmentally-derived evolutionary network) processes evolutionary DNA from more than one million newly ...

The KLF5 gene fuels growth spreading pancreatic cancer not by acquiring abnormal changes in the cancer cells' DNA but by altering chemical changes and organization of DNA.

Symbiotic bacteria living inside insect cells have lost much of their DNA over hundreds of millions of years, much like the ancient microbes that evolved into mitochondria ...

When he was just a teenager trying to decide what to do with his life, César de la Fuente compiled a list of the world’s biggest problems. He ranked them inversely by how much money governments were ...