A new tool developed at ETH Zurich, MetaGraph, allows scientists to search through vast public DNA and RNA databases in seconds — like a “Google for DNA.” DNA sequencing has transformed biomedical ...

You might think that bringing an animal back from extinction is a pipe dream, but one company is getting closer to bringing ...

An example of this conflict occurred in the 1920s when Trofim Lysenko, a Soviet biologist, rejected natural selection in ...

In a paper published in PNAS, a University of Michigan team proposes that fundamental principles of control theory and observability can be applied to study biological processes that change over time.

Researchers have discovered giant DNA structures in oral bacteria, and data hint they could influence the function of your ...

Medical oncologist Heather Parsons, MD, MPH, witnessed how cancer affects the entire family when her younger sister was ...

Scientists at the University of East Anglia and Oxford Biodynamics have developed a high accuracy blood test to diagnose ...

The scientists named this new process ER3D, which stands for endogenous RNA-directed DNA damage. It’s the first time ...

Long before humans built computers, nature built a better one. Razan Al Mubarak sees biodiversity as the planet’s original ...

Study results published in The New England Journal of Medicine show the therapy significantly improved hearing in nearly a ...

What do you get when you propose to someone at a cheesemaking facility? Hopefully a yes, if they’re not too put off by the ...