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

A 19-year-old Canadian man becomes the first human cured through prime gene editing after doctors corrected a rare genetic ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of chiton, an ancient marine mollusk that has remained virtually unchanged for the ...

Koalas’ population comeback may be doing more than boosting numbers—it could also be rebuilding their lost genetic diversity.

After getting engaged, the only words Mrinali Dhembla expected to hear were “I do.” Instead, she was told, “You have cancer.” ...

In a French criminal trial, conventional DNA analysis couldn’t distinguish between twin brothers, but emerging scientific methods could help in such cases.

The origin of the nucleus remains hotly debated among scientists, but new imaging and genomic data are shedding light on this billion-year-old mystery.

A new gene-targeting strategy that boosts a crucial brain protein could pave the way for the first effective treatment for Rett syndrome. Researchers at Texas Children’s Duncan Neurological Research I ...

A Texas biotech company is trying to bring mammoths and other extinct creatures back to life. The science is as intriguing as ...

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 Evo2 genomic language model can generate short genome sequences, but scientists say further advances are needed to write ...