In the study of bacteria, a longstanding dogma has held that two molecular machines—RNA polymerase, which leads the way in transcribing DNA into RNA, and ribosomes, which bring up the rear translating ...

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...

EMBL researchers created SDR-seq, a next-generation tool that decodes both DNA and RNA from the same cell. It finally opens access to non-coding regions, where most disease-associated genetic variants ...

Scientists have uncovered a mechanism by which human cells distinguish between more and less efficient genetic codons, revealing that the genetic code carries an additional layer of regulatory ...

The generative AI era began for most people with the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT in late 2022, but the underlying technology — the "Transformer" neural network architecture that allows AI models to ...

Aging is a significant risk factor for male reproductive health, with exposures to risk factors over a lifetime leading to disrupted testicular function and spermatogenesis that, in turn, result in ...

An Italy that can’t grow its own wheat for pasta? It’s a race against time. Using a shared database in a Microsoft super-computer, scientists from Italy and other countries are working together to ...

Gout is an inflammatory joint disease caused by abnormal uric acid metabolism, characterized by the deposition of urate crystals in joints and surrounding tissues, leading to acute or chronic ...

The universal genetic code is made up of several codons or triplet bases. The standard code has evolved over time to minimize coding errors. There are a total of 64 codons in the genetic code arising ...

In 2020, Google DeepMind unveiled a technology that fundamentally changed biology forever. AlphaFold, an AI that could predict the 3D structure of proteins with stunning accuracy, solved a 50-year-old ...