A new study by researchers at the Mount Sinai Health System suggests that a simple tweak to how artificial intelligence (AI) ...

This is clearly good news, though there is no claim of a cure and if it can be turned into a treatment, that will surely be ...

New York, NY [August 28, 2025]—When genetic testing reveals a rare DNA mutation, doctors and patients are frequently left in the dark about what it actually means. Now, researchers at the Icahn School ...

Scientists have created Syn57, a completely synthetic bacterium with a genetic code unlike anything in nature. Unlike all known life, which uses 64 codons to build proteins, Syn57 only uses 57 — ...

Do you remember the early days of social media? The promise of connection, of democratic empowerment, of barriers crumbling and gates opening? In those heady days, the co-founder of Twitter said that ...

An illustration of E. coli. Scientists have been racing to shrink the genetic code of this bacterium. Kateryna Kon / Science Photo Library via Getty Images The DNA of nearly all life on Earth is made ...

In a giant feat of genetic engineering, scientists have created bacteria that make proteins in a radically different way than all natural species do. By Carl Zimmer At the heart of all life is a code.

What scientists once dismissed as junk DNA may actually be some of the most powerful code in our genome. A new international study reveals that ancient viral DNA buried in our genes plays an active ...

More than two dozen states seek a ruling in the 23andMe bankruptcy case that customers own the rights to their DNA. Do people have a right to control what happens to a genetic analysis of their own ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A group of scientists at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) may have the key to discovering cancer’s origins within the body, as well as insights into new treatment ...