By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded ...

A complete breakdown of the abbreviation, including its role and function within the body.

How does our DNA store the massive amount of information needed to build a human being? And what happens when it's stored incorrectly? Jesse Dixon, MD, Ph.D., has spent years studying the way this ...

The DNA foundation model Evo 2 has been published in the journal Nature. Trained on the DNA of over 100,000 species across ...

Less than 2% of the genome codes for proteins; the rest, once called 'junk DNA', contains regulatory elements. Researchers analyzed 10,000 to reveal how variants shape gene activity.

The DNA foundation model Evo 2, first released in February 2025 as a preprint, is now published in the journal Nature.

When a nuclear disaster empties a landscape of people, nature doesn’t politely wait for instructions. It moves in. After the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, entire ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Thomas Begley, University at Albany, State University of New York and Marlene Belfort, ...

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Scientists warn that radiation and microgravity pose a major threat to human reproduction in space. Understanding these ...

Researchers at Australian start-up Cortical Labs have taught human neurons grown on a chip to play the classic Doom game. In 2021, they had already used 800,000 neurons to play Pong. Now, with four ...

The author of The Mother Code shares how unraveling family myths, navigating fertility challenges, and discovering “outlaw ...