Since the dawn of the computer age, researchers have wrestled with two persistent challenges: how to store ever-increasing ...

Discover how Listeria bacteria communicate to develop antibiotic resistance and the implications for future drug development.

The power of artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced computing has made it possible to design genetic sequences encoding ...

Scientists at Google DeepMind —the company’s artificial intelligence research arm—say they’ve created an A.I. tool that can ...

DeepMind’s AlphaGenome AI model could help solve the problem of predicting how variations in noncoding DNA shape gene ...

Uncovering unexpected family connections can be "life-altering", says Dr Jo-Ann Sparrow, leading to feelings of betrayal and ...

DNA's iconic double helix does more than "just" store genetic information. Under certain conditions it can temporarily fold into unusual shapes. Researchers at Umeå University, Sweden, have now shown ...

Life runs on instructions you never see. Every cell reads DNA, turns that message into RNA, and then builds proteins that ...

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to ...

Viral DNA that is usually dismissed when sequencing the human genome could help to uncover useful information about complex ...

WTOP’s Matt Kaufax takes an even deeper dive into the Smithsonian Natural History Museum’s “Ocean Library” through DNA collection.