Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is?

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

About a dozen studies in the past five years have made claims linking nearly every type of human cancer with the presence of ...

The world of protein engineering just took a giant leap forward. A team in China has developed a method that makes designing ...

Gene editing technologies, such as those used in agriculture and de-extinction efforts, can be repurposed to provide what an international team of scientists describes as a breakthrough approach for ...

Genetically engineered cell lines used in biomedical research have long been prone to misidentification and unauthorized use, wasting billions of dollars each year and jeopardizing critical scientific ...

Deep learning models have shown great potential in predicting and engineering functional enzymes and proteins. Does this prowess extend to other fields of biology as well? Contrary to expectations, a ...

Disease-resistant frogs, cane-toad-munching quolls and other gene-edited native animals could be roaming the nation within ...

HIV globally, and that number continues to rise. While therapies exist to reduce the amount of HIV in a patient's body and, ...

Scientists in China have developed an experimental “DNA cassette tape” to address the global data storage crisis.