AI maps fleeting DNA quadruplexes, revealing paired structures that control genes in healthy cells and cancer.

WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research ...

One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published ...

Donald Trump's administration is turning immigration screening into the backbone of a DNA surveillance system that reaches ...

Tools for Humanity, the technology company building for humans in the age of AI, today introduced the new World App, a super app for the AI era that brings together encrypted messaging, global ...

Researchers demonstrated that it is feasible to encode executable payloads into synthetic DNA that, once sequenced and processed, could trigger malware in sequencing software. When a vulnerability in ...

DNA can sustain serious injuries called double strand breaks, in which both strands of the helix snap. These breaks are among the most dangerous forms of DNA damage and immediately trigger the cell's ...

Abstract: This paper introduces a novel color image encryption algorithm based on a five-dimensional continuous memristor hyperchaotic system (5D-MHS), combined with a two-dimensional Salomon map and ...

Rosalind Franklin was a brilliant physical chemist whose X-ray diffraction work revealed the structure of DNA with unprecedented clarity. Without her knowledge, her assistant shared the image with ...

The house cat (Felis catus) slunk into China in the eighth century. But long before that, the ancient Chinese were by no means catless. Modern house cats are descendants of the African wildcat (Felis ...

Scientists have identified a protein that may be key to proper sperm formation. Without it, male mice produced no viable sperm, they found. A team at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research ...