In a way, sequencing DNA is very simple: There's a molecule, you look at it, and you write down what you find. You'd think it would be easy—and, for any one letter in the sequence, it is. The problem ...

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

Gene therapy holds the promise of preventing and curing disease by manipulating gene expression within a patient's cells. However, to be effective, the new gene must make it into a cell's nucleus. The ...

It could transform our understanding of why diseases develop and the medicines needed to treat them, says researchers.

Once disregarded as “junk DNA,” scientists now know that this molecular dark matter is crucial for determining gene activity ...

Over the past two decades, researchers have learned that DNA inside the cell nucleus naturally folds into a network of ...

How do cutting-edge science and technology respond to ethical and legal issues when incorporated into society? These issues ...

Artificial intelligence has gotten a bad reputation lately, and often for good reason. But a team of scientists at Google’s ...

An upside-down jellyfish drifts in a shallow lagoon, rhythmically contracting its translucent bell. By night that beat drops ...

Unfortunately, our systems of biosecurity, governance, and global cooperation are not keeping pace with this hypothetical but ...