Gene therapy has experienced an increasing number of successful human clinical trials, leading to numerous FDA-approved therapies based on recombinant viruses for rare disease, cancer, and other ...

Natural evolution is a slow process that relies on the gradual accumulation of genetic mutations. In recent years, scientists have found ways to speed up the process on a small scale, allowing them to ...

A new study warns that artificial intelligence may be entering an 'evolvable' phase, where systems replicate, vary, and undergo selection with less human oversight. Researchers outline two scenarios: ...

In 2012, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) approached the National Research Council and asked that an ad hoc committee be formed to develop a list of workshop topics to explore the impact of ...

Directed evolution is a laboratory technique that mimics natural selection and allows scientists to evolve genes and the proteins they encode. Traditionally, this technique has been used in microbes, ...

EPFL researchers have developed a light-based method that can produce proteins that switch states, respond to signals, and even compute, using light and the cell cycle. Subscribe to our newsletter for ...

Scientists have developed a novel protein evolution approach dubbed optovolution that uses light to guide the evolution of proteins with dynamic, multi-state, and computational functions based on ...

Virginia W. Cornish is the Helena Rubinstein Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Columbia University. She graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in biochemistry in 1991 from Columbia University ...