A recent study published in PNAS analyzed when German Shepherds accumulated their “mutational load” of bad genes. Was it from ...

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A group of ocean bacteria long considered perfectly adapted to life in nutrient-poor waters may be more vulnerable to ...

Columnist Michael Le Page delves into a catalogue of hundreds of potentially beneficial gene mutations and variants that is ...

Scientists have uncovered a 400-million-year-old genetic secret that gave spiders the ability to produce silk and weave their ...

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

Illumina is the world leader in gene sequencing technology – the ability to read and record DNA. Now, the billion-dollar company is buying SomaLogic to focus on protein.

Biologists have uncovered a new mode of communication inside cells that helps bacterial pathogens learn how to evade drugs.

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Experts reconstructed the genome of Treponema pallidum from 5,500-year-old human remains in Colombia, revealing an unknown ...

How Isomorphic Labs Is Rewriting Drug Discovery. Google DeepMind spin-off Isomorphic Labs is building an AI drug design ...

“This finding emphasizes the distinction between unambiguous biological evidence and its social meaning,” Alissa Mittnik ...