David Baker's lab at the University of Washington is announcing two major leaps in the field of AI-powered protein design.

Colibactin is a powerful toxin produced by Escherichia coli and other bacteria living in the human gut. This highly unstable ...

Scientists have created a live-cell DNA sensor that reveals how damage appears and disappears inside living cells, capturing ...

Kian Sadeghi, the 25-year-old founder and CEO at Nucleus Genomics, tells "CBS Mornings" that parents have every right to select the qualities and traits they desire in their child.

The microbe Pyrodictium abyssi is an archaeon—a member of what's known as the third domain of life—and an extremophile. It ...

Tiny repeated stretches of DNA in your genome may quietly shape how your body works, how your brain develops and how you ...

DNA scaffolds that mirror influenza virus protein geometry boost antiviral binding and reduce infection more effectively than free molecules, enabling a modular antiviral design strategy.

Researchers created a highly efficient gene-editing method that fixes multiple DNA mutations in a single step. The breakthrough could revolutionize genetic medicine by making treatments for complex ...

A novel blood test analyzing fragments of cell-free DNA showed robust diagnostic performance for colorectal cancer across clinical subgroups, offering a promising noninvasive screening method.

By Kelly Peters,Special to Rice NewsAs artificial intelligence plays an increasingly prominent role in decoding DNA, tracking ...

Minimal residual disease (MRD)—minute populations of cancer cells undetectable by conventional imaging—remains the chief ...

In five years since AlphaFold's debut, it has transformed basic biochemical research. But its long-term effect on drug ...