People often compare the genome to a computer's program, with the cell using its genetic code to process environmental inputs ...

Nobel laureate Har Gobind Khorana's groundbreaking work on the genetic code, deciphering how DNA sequences translate to ...

By examining genomic variation more closely, scientists can now identify new disease connections with greater speed and accuracy. For centuries, scientists have recognized that certain illnesses can ...

Scientists have long suspected connections between heredity and disease, dating back to Hippocrates, who observed certain ...

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.

In this Q&A, Latent Labs CEO and AlphaFold co-developer Simon Kohl explains how generative A.I. is transforming biology from ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is? A recent ...

An overview of how genetics associated with schizophrenia and bipolar can influence how cells communicate, ultimately ...

URBANA, Ill. – Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way ...

When Microsoft’s chief scientific officer Eric Horvitz and his team describe a “zero-day” in biology, they are deliberately ...

A new study of the bizarre naked mole rat shows that the animals have evolved a DNA repair mechanism that could explain their ...