Scientists have succeeded in reconstructing the family tree of cells in a developing mouse embryo. They recorded cells' relationships, starting when the fertilized egg first split in two and ending ...

AI-designed proteins improved targeted DNA insertion in cultured cells, with one variant doubling the performance of an ...

Bloodstream infections are a persistent threat to hospitalized patients, and those caused by fungi are particularly dangerous. Candida species are responsible for most invasive fungal infections ...

(Agnes Noy/Catley et al., Nucleic Acids Research, 2026) If you could peer inside a cell's nucleus, you would find DNA tightly ...

Few ideas in modern biology have captured the public imagination quite like epigenetics. The promise is seductive: chemical ...

A meta-analysis of 41 studies and 3,058 patients shows that detectable circulating tumor DNA after neoadjuvant therapy ...

Indian-origin scientist Shankar Balasubramanian has won the 2026 Wolf Prize in Chemistry for his contribution to ...

Repetitive sequences make extrachromosomal DNA vulnerable to breaks, which could be exploited for therapy — but might also promote tumour evolution.

Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings Inc. stocks have been trading up by 14.81 percent amid heightened optimism over its synthetic ...

Jonathan was already a fully grown tortoise when he arrived on the remote island of St. Helena in 1882. He has since outlived ...

It compares 'individual differences' in the sequence of ATGC, rather than looking at the shape of DNAThis also connects to ...

Scientists accidentally discovered a microscopic organism with a genetic code that breaks a rule researchers thought was ...