A newly developed AI can predict which diseases specific genetic mutations are likely to cause, not just whether they are ...

This comprehensive e-book from The Hindu explores how gene editing tools like CRISPR and synthetic biology are fundamentally changing what it means to be human and are giving us the power to modify ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the oldest and deadliest infectious diseases we know. It commonly impacts the lungs, but can also affect other areas of the body like the spine, brain or kidneys.

Tiny repeated stretches of DNA in your genome may quietly shape how your body works, how your brain develops and how you ...

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Toronto police say a dead Ontario man is now believed to be behind at least three long-unsolved killings of women dating back ...

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have performed a comprehensive evaluation of five artificial ...

Scientists are collecting DNA from the Arctic Ocean to create a better map of climate change and environmental health ...

They built a cassette tape of DNA big enough to store every song ever recorded. In traditional DNA storage, all the data is mixed together. That’s why it’s so hard to retrieve it. To read one piece of ...

A previously unknown type of DNA damage in the mitochondria, the tiny power plants inside our cells, could shed light on how our bodies sense and respond to stress. The findings of the UC ...

Speculation about his parentage has dogged the Duke of Sussex throughout his life, but an AI-generated clip did nothing to ...

With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to increased knowledge about gene regulation in human cells. How genes are turned on ...