An international team of researchers including scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) have developed a way ...

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

An international team of researchers including scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) have developed a way to reveal the smallest ...

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

Ancient evidence suggests a new twist in how we all got here.

The researchers took a “safety-first” approach. They deliberately excluded all viruses that infect humans or animals from the ...

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 ...

Caltech researchers have invented a new technology to write long sequences of DNA with groundbreaking accuracy. The invention, a method called Sidewinder, utilizes the conceptual equivalent of page ...

This mind-blowing study revealed how berberine lowers LDL cholesterol through a mechanism that’s completely different from that underlying statins or other drugs.

Ginkgo Bioworks (DNA) stock is in focus as the company as part of a collaboration with Microsoft (MSFT)-backed OpenAI cuts ...

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