From AI models to synthetic DNA screening and outbreak surveillance, there are several points where emerging biological risks ...

If you or someone you know has dog allergies, this news is sure to catch your attention: a pair of beagles were genetically edited to make them hypoallergenic pooches who wouldn’t trigger reactions ...

Scientists probing life’s deepest origins have uncovered evidence that the first free-living cells may have emerged not once, but twice. The findings suggest a striking possibility: life may share one ...

Scientists at a biotech company have used gene editing to create two hypoallergenic beagles that don't trigger allergies.

“The closer we look, the more clearly we can see that early biochemical evolution was a hybrid of enzymatic and metal catalysts,” says Joseph Moran from the University of Ottawa, Canada, an ...

In 1968, the American biochemist and geneticist Marshall Nirenberg and his colleagues won the Nobel Prize in physiology or ...

Researchers used AI to design working bacteriophages for the first time, raising questions about antibiotic resistance and biosecurity.

When a wound does not heal properly, it leaves a scar. Similarly, mutations—which are permanent changes to genetic code—are ...

The viruses were able to function and proliferate. In a new study, researchers showed that they could use AI to design 16 functioning viruses not found in nature. The new research fuels concerns that ...

For life to get started it may have depended on one of the rarest, and currently most expensive, metals on Earth.

Two years ago, at my father’s funeral, I gave a eulogy highlighting a genetic trait that runs through our family: we are ...

An international research team has uncovered how LUCA, the last ancestor of all life on Earth, split into the first two ...