NASA has found sugars essential for life on Earth in samples of the 4.6 billion-year-old Bennu asteroid. Scientists discovered glucose, the human body’s main source of energy, as well as the critical ...

The first study to examine the extent of European ancestry biases in gene maps reveals tens of thousands of genetic ...

CUPid is what is known as a 'liquid biopsy' - blood tests that look for tiny fragments of cancer DNA in the blood. Developed at The Christie and the University of Manchester, this technique is so ...

Researchers examined five AI models on multiple genomic tasks to see how well they performed. The findings provide a ...

Human gene maps contain major blind spots because they were built largely from the DNA sequences of people with European ...

Nobel laureate David Baker’s latest foundation model can design proteins that interact to any biomolecule for broad biotech applications.

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts and history-making discoverers, and jetting above the c ...

New Houston Methodist research has revealed that a protein associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia and ...

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

Rutgers scientists have developed plastics that can be programmed to break down at specific rates by drawing on a natural principle. Their approach could provide a meaningful new way to tackle the ...

RNA, widely known from the COVID-19 vaccine, is not actually a "therapeutic agent," but a technology that delivers the ...