New scientific methods could one day render animal studies—the standard in research laboratories for more than 100 ...

Biologists are closing in on a puzzle that seems to turn classic evolutionary logic inside out, yet may be so common that it deserves to be called a new rule of life. Instead of always purging harmful ...

Artificial intelligence has just redrawn the map of our genome’s control room, revealing hundreds of thousands of tiny DNA knots that behave less like static quirks and more like hidden switches.

We know the genes, but not their functions—to resolve this long-standing bottleneck in microbial research, a joint research ...

There are hundreds of cell types in the human body, each with a specific role spelled out in their DNA. In theory, all it ...

A patient death in a CRISPR trial halts gene editing studies, raising critical safety questions. What this means for the ...

Using CLASSIC, Rice researchers realized that circuits are variable, having multiple pathways to elicit the same outcome.

Data from a major U.S. clinical trial from the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology has uncovered a genetic factor that ...

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A small group of volunteers will receive multiple injections of the experimental treatments next month, says Unlimited Bio. At some point next month, a handful of volunteers will be injected with two ...

New CLASSIC technique uses AI and massive DNA libraries to predict genetic circuit performance faster and more accurately.