For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...

Researchers uncovered millions of ancient plant DNA switches—some older than flowering plants themselves—revealing a hidden evolutionary blueprint stretching back 400 million years. Most people have ...

The Southern Ocean—vast, boundless waters surrounding Antarctica—plays an outsized role in global climate, largely thanks to tiny drifting organisms called plankton that soak up carbon. Reporting in ...

The startup is developing AI foundation models trained on DNA rather than text or code, applying deep learning techniques to ...

A Malaysian researcher is studying the prospect of prescribing medicine based on a patient's DNA to help them receive safer ...

A high-fat diet can cause the intestinal lining to weaken, allowing live gut bacteria to travel directly to the brain in mice ...

For decades, dog owners relied on guesswork to understand their pets’ backgrounds. A mixed-breed rescue might be labeled ...

Purdue University researcher Emily Dykhuizen explores how cancer takes advantage of the machinery that surrounds DNA, enabling some of its most pernicious powers, like the ability to evade the immune ...

A new genetic study by researchers at Michigan State University reveals that Borneo’s “fanged frogs” may consist of several hidden species, highlighting complex evolution and the importance of DNA in ...

Across the animal kingdom, evolution has opened the door to a growing scientific quest to understand what a menagerie of ...

Mosquitoes haven’t always had a taste for human blood — partly because the tiny yet dangerous insects have been around a lot longer than humans.

By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell—from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell division—scientists have opened a new frontier of computer vision into the ...