Every living cell, from the simplest bacterium to a human neuron, relies on the same basic machinery to read, interpret, and use its DNA. This molecular machinery is so fundamental that life as we ...

Doctors have long debated how to balance the need for safety in gene therapy trials with the urgency of developing treatments ...

A newly mapped step in DNA replication suggests that strand separation begins at a precise junction between two helicase rings. Credit: Shutterstock Researchers mapped where DNA first opens and how a ...

Elizabeth Campbell studies the molecular machinery that all living cells use to read and transcribe their genetic instructions. Her lab is finding new ...

(Alones Creative/iStock/Getty Images) One of the most iconic visual representations in biological science is the double helix – the twisting, twin-stranded ladder that defines the shape of DNA ...

Experts believe we somehow inherited that DNA either directly or indirectly through interbreeding between species. Whether ...

Blended genome–exome sequencing reads key regions deeply and the rest of the genome shallowly, cutting costs and ancestry ...

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

Forensic DNA evidence tampering is no longer theoretical: researchers showed AI-assisted code can silently alter crime-lab electropherogram files, the DNA scan records courts rely on, without any ...

Artificial intelligence has designed viruses that can infect bacteria and reproduce—a first that shows AI is beginning to do ...

The software most American crime labs use to read DNA evidence carried a flaw. It let someone with the right access quietly rewrite the results, and leave almost no trace. AI made the attack easy. The ...

Silicon chips have long been associated with computing power. Increasingly, the same type of technology is being adapted to interface with biology: reading DNA, monitoring neurons and now, in a new ...