Bacteria and phages that travel in space behave much differently in microgravity than they do in labs on Earth, exciting ...

Researchers isolated a phage of the Microviridae family from human feces, representing the smallest phage infecting the gut ...

Immune checkpoint inhibitors targeting PD-1 and PD-L1 have revolutionized cancer therapy, delivering long-term survival benefits in several malignancies. However, nearly half of patients show limited ...

Research is shaking up how we think about evolution, suggesting there's a level of predictability influenced by genes and genetic history.

Typhoid fever, an illness that has been controlled in developed countries since the early 20th century, is evolving to be ...

UC San Diego professor Ludmil Alexandrov will lead an international team of scientists awarded $25 million to research cancer mutations. The award comes from Cancer Grand Challenges, a collaboration ...

A global database of new crop varieties developed by mutation breeding has been upgraded and expanded to include data on mutant microbial bacteria and fungi strains as well as mutant plant varieties.

By Hugo Francisco de Souza Trained on genomic data spanning the tree of life, Evo 2 reveals how artificial intelligence can ...

Cancer immunotherapy has transformed oncology, yet many patients fail to respond or eventually develop resistance.

The DNA foundation model Evo 2 has been published in the journal Nature. Trained on the DNA of over 100,000 species across ...

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

A vaccine usually trains your immune system to recognize one target. Here, the target is basically “anything that doesn’t belong in the lungs.