Last November, the UK government announced a bold plan to phase out animal testing in some areas of research. Animal tests for skin irritation are scheduled for elimination this year, and some studies ...

A recent study by Fred Hutch biochemist Christopher Lapointe, PhD, and his colleagues, uses innovative lab techniques to ...

Single-cell omics is a transformative area within life sciences, enabling researchers to untangle cellular heterogeneity, uncover developmental lineages, ...

Can the bend of a banana give us insight into cancer? What does the shape of a rice grain have to do with infertility? The ...

A pair of new studies have provided fresh evidence in the long-running scientific debate—and the result could be ...

The enormous consumption of American Patriot air defence missiles in the Middle East has consequences for Switzerland. The ...

Scientists are trying to understand how complex life emerged on Earth about 2 billion years ago. Our microbial ancestors could be the key.

Proof-of-concept trial in a single patient shows that cells can survive transplantation without immunosuppression ...

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

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

Spinal cord injury often triggers a cascade of secondary damage that severely limits functional recovery, largely driven by ...

A new study suggests AI systems could be a lot more efficient. Researchers were able to shrink an AI vision model to 1/1000th ...