When bacteria cells replicate, they do so a little differently than human cells do. They don't undergo mitosis, a splitting that involves construction of spindles to carefully separate the DNA after ...

The Potential of DNA as a Building Block for NanomachinesImagine DNA robots traveling through the bloodstream to deliver drugs, targeting specific ...

A protein found in bowhead whales, one of the longest-living mammals on Earth, could help improve how human cells repair DNA, according to new research from scientists at the Albert Einstein College ...

An Arlington police officer jumped into action when a bus was stranded recently — delivering pizzas.

One dog, one vaccine, one data point. The story of Rosie is fascinating – but it is not yet evidence that AI can beat cancer.

Researchers reveal how DICER precisely processes RNA using dual binding pockets, ensuring accurate gene silencing, and ...

An Australian tech entrepreneur has helped create what appears to be a made-to-measure cancer vaccine for his dog, Rosie, using artificial ...

I’m always trying to get better. The great enemy of restaurateurs is complacency and overconfidence,” Jeremy King tells Observer.

Stanford Medicine researchers have built CRISPR-GPT, a large language model designed to automate the full arc of gene-editing ...

In the first post of this series, I described what happens to the human body at ground zero of a 10 to 15-kiloton nuclear detonation: the zone within 800 meters of the hypocenter. There, the thermal ...

Programmer-turned-novelist Andy Weir has now cranked out two bestselling sci-fi novels that Hollywood could not resist.

Programmer-turned-novelist Andy Weir has now cranked out two bestselling sci-fi novels that Hollywood could not resist.