The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows. The complex precursors to ...

Even the tiniest discoveries can have outsized significance, a worm in a salty lake hints at life yet to be found.

Fixing gene defects with designer DNA is on the horizon after Google DeepMind launched a pioneering new AI tool.

Eliminating federally funded animal research -- particularly research involving non-human primates -- won't usher in a more ...

A major technological advance in DNA writing enables researchers to construct and create in the language of biology ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

Seeing chemistry unfold inside living cells is one of the biggest challenges of modern bioimaging. Raman microscopy offers a ...

How a person will be diagnosed with a mental illness could look significantly different in the near future.

AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint. But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely ...

Your chronological age can’t always tell you the state of your health, which is why biological clocks have been developed to show our risk of developing diseases or dying – but they’re not all they ...

Euan Ashley's lab explores the intricate interactions of gene variants. Tiny "typos," or genetic mutations, can sneak into ...