A group of Stanford bioengineers claim that they've created synthetic bacteriophages using AI-generated designs that not only ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

"What it means is that for each part of the human genome where the chimp has a corresponding DNA sequence, on average 1 out ...

“While the rest of the genome shuffles between the maternal and paternal origins, centromeres are inherited intact: one from ...

AI designed new bacteriophages that killed E. coli in lab tests, promising advances but raising safety concerns.

Proteins sustain life as we know it, serving many important structural and functional roles throughout the body. But these large molecules have cast a long shadow over a smaller subclass of proteins ...

The preserved lung of an 18-year-old Swiss man has been used to create the full genome of the 1918 "Spanish flu," the first complete influenza A genome with a precise date from Europe. It offers new ...

Seventy-nine percent of endemic species are showing declines, underscoring how fragile island biodiversity is in the face of ...