Researchers at the University of California San Diego have identified new genetic variants associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) by using long-read whole genome sequencing (LR-WGS), an ...

Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...

Findings could help yield more accurate tests for autism and new therapies targeting specific genetic mechanisms.

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal ...

A systematic review of 52 scientific papers submitted to a world-leading clinical genetics journal from multiple scientists ...

Researchers have discovered a new way to increase a key brain protein damaged in Rett syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that affects thousands of children worldwide. Early studies in mice and ...

Scientists developed Evo 2, a large biological foundation model trained on about 9 trillion DNA base pairs that can analyse ...

A team of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas ...

A new gene-targeting strategy that boosts a crucial brain protein could pave the way for the first effective treatment for ...

New research reveals that ancient interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals shaped our modern human DNA - especially on ...

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 ...

The DNA foundation model Evo 2, first released in February 2025 as a preprint, is now published in the journal Nature . Trained on the DNA of over ...