The discovery of catalytic RNA transformed our understanding of life's beginnings. Clare Sansom explores how the RNA world ...

Ancient duplicated genes are giving scientists their first real clues about what life was like before all life on Earth shared a common ancestor.

In a quiet freshwater pond in Ibaraki Prefecture near Tokyo, researchers have pulled from the water a microscopic giant that ...

Personalized Gene Editing Saves Baby in Record Time In early 2025, researchers successfully treated a baby boy with a rare, ...

Every time a cell divides, it must copy its entire genome so that each daughter cell inherits a complete set of DNA. During that process, enzymes known as polymerases race along the DNA to copy its ...

"By cleverly combining new techniques for analyzing DNA at the level of individual molecules, we can achieve real breakthroughs in research into conditions such as dementia," predicts Professor John ...

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

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

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