The story of life’s beginnings gets stranger when you look closely at viruses. These tiny entities seem to sit at the edge of ...

A giant DNA virus pulled from a Japanese freshwater pond is forcing scientists to rethink how complex cells first acquired their defining feature: the nucleus. Named ushikuvirus, the newly ...

All complex biological systems—like the DNA, RNA and proteins constantly being copied and built within our cells—are prone to errors. That means as life evolved to be more elaborate, it also had to ...

The walls of Tom Rubython’s office are adorned with gilded-framed images of his cocker spaniel “girls”. In one, a doleful face is staring up at the lens with big brown eyes. “Daisy Dog, 2003-2016,” ...

Researchers at Cardiff University have uncovered how a particularly severe form of DNA damage arises - shedding new light on mutation processes that ...

The #1 copy trading platform and the #1 prediction market data platform unite to redefine how the world trades on information ...

Cambridge researchers map the convergence of biomarkers, digital phenotyping, and AI toward biologically grounded ...

Study finds major methodological differences across seven direct-to-consumer stool tests, producing taxonomic profiles as variable as those between individuals — limiting clinical use.

Most lethal mutations in wild fruit flies are driven by newly transferred jumping genes, not small DNA errors, according to a new study from Duke ...

"It's probably one of the most egregious demonstrations of government overreach imaginable." | Opinion ...

Pet cloning helped one woman honor her beloved cat - but she warns that clones are never exact copies.

A new synthesis finds that common epilepsies are driven by thousands of tiny-effect genetic variants, most still ...