So, what are retrons? They’re bacterial immune systems that save the bacterial herd by culling individual bacteria infected ...

A new gene-editing technique enables the correction of multiple genetic mutations simultaneously, transforming the prospects ...

Explore CRISPR technology explained, gene editing science, DNA modification, and genetic engineering ethics—discover how ...

Some genetic disorders—such as cystic fibrosis, hemophilia and Tay Sachs disease—involve many mutations in a person's genome, ...

A new platform developed at Scripps Research enables fast, scalable protein evolution. This potentially opens the door to new ...

A new DNA sequencing technique that delivers faster and more accurate bacterial infection diagnoses could be implemented nationwide. The method, developed by the Medicines and Healthcare products ...

Can AI create a life form? These “generative” genomes are a start Artificial intelligence can draw cat pictures and write emails. Now the same technology can compose a working genome. A research team ...

It’s a breakthrough that sounds straight out of sci-fi. A team at Stanford University announced in a recent preprint that they’ve used AI to generate a virus genome, and from that produced functional ...

The idea that a single-celled bacterium can defend itself against viruses in a similar way as the 1.8-trillion-cell human immune system is still “mind-blowing” for molecular biologist Joshua Modell of ...