The origin of many diseases begins at the cellular level and involves multiple molecular interactions. However, previous methods have struggled to accurately observe changes in individual cells.

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 ...

Human pluripotent stem-cells (HPSCs)—including human embryonic stem-cells and human induced pluripotent stem-cells—are reshaping the landscape of regenerative medicine.1,2 In Parkinson's disease, ...

A version of this Priestley Medal address will be presented at the American Chemical Society Spring 2026 meeting ...

Creatures that can change from one form to another are a staple of science fiction: Think werewolves and Transformers. Nature, too, has its shapeshifters, such as dimorphic fungi. While scientists ...

I have had both the responsibility and the privilege of giving many people and their loved ones the diagnosis of psychosis. Technically, psychosis is not a stand-alone diagnosis; it's actually a ...

The human genome is made up of about three billion pairs of DNA units called nucleotides. Olena_T via Getty Images Scientists at Google DeepMind—the company’s artificial intelligence research arm—say ...

DNA stores the body’s operating playbook. Some genes encode proteins. Other sections change a cell’s behavior by regulating which genes are turned on or off. For yet others, the dark matter of the ...

AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint. But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely a mystery. By Carl Zimmer In 2024, two scientists from Google DeepMind ...

DNA is the blueprint for life, influencing everything about us—including our health. We know that our genes, the genetic “words” that encode proteins, play a major role in health and disease. But the ...

A 14,400-year-old wolf puppy’s last meal is shedding light on the last days of one of the Ice Age’s most iconic megafauna species, the woolly rhinoceros. When researchers dissected the frozen ...

The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal’s complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ancient animal. The woolly rhinoceros, illustrated above, is an extinct ...