Every RNA virus—from stomach bugs and influenza to measles and the common cold—has its own story to tell, with a unique ...

USA News Group News Commentary - Artificial intelligence has become the most talked-about tool in drug discovery, promising to compress the years and billions of dollars it takes to turn a biological ...

A few grams of dark, crumbly rock hauled back from a near-Earth asteroid have handed chemists one of the cleanest looks yet ...

When a wound does not heal properly, it leaves a scar. Similarly, mutations – which are permanent changes to genetic code – ...

From AI models to synthetic DNA screening and outbreak surveillance, there are several points where emerging biological risks ...

Scientists probing life’s deepest origins have uncovered evidence that the first free-living cells may have emerged not once, but twice. The findings suggest a striking possibility: life may share one ...

Researchers used AI to design working bacteriophages for the first time, raising questions about antibiotic resistance and biosecurity.

RNA technology is moving beyond vaccines to enable targeted gene-editing therapies and novel treatments for complex diseases, ...

The asteroid Ryugu imaged by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft in 2018 JAXA / Kevin M. Gill via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-2.0 The asteroid Ryugu, millions of miles away from Earth, might not look that ...

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 amino acids. But certain groups of microbes have an expanded genetic code, in ...

There are few hard and fast rules in the study of life, but perhaps the closest we get is the central dogma of molecular biology: DNA is transcribed to RNA, which gets translated into proteins. The ...