Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To ...

It’s not necessarily obvious that learning the organization of a genome would help an AI system figure out how to make ...

Despite having plagued humans for millennia, typhoid fever is rarely considered a threat in developed countries today. But ...

The PubPlant database organizes the avalanche of new genomes that are revolutionizing agriculture.

Jeff Bezos has had quite a hectic week, having just concluded his third venture capital investment in a promising artificial intelligence startup. This time, the recipient of Bezos’s largesse is a ...

All starting from the same DNA, neurons ultimately take on individual characteristics in the brain and body. Differences in ...

Scientists find the DNA of a 300,000-year-old horse in Schöningen, driven to extinction by hunting, next to a wooden spear that killed it.

Mitochondria generate most of the body's energy. Variations in their genetic material have long been linked to neurological ...

Stanford and UC Berkeley are collaborating on major research initiatives despite their rivalry on the field, from developing ...

Researchers say they have recovered RNA from the remains of a woolly mammoth that lived roughly 39,000 years ago.

Oats, a seemingly simple breakfast food, but inside each grain lies DNA that BYU professors are helping decode, work that could shape the future of farming, nutrition, and food security.

Bacterial infections can spread quickly, especially in hospital settings or crowded communities, where vulnerable people are ...