An international team led by a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientist has created a first-of-its-kind resource ...

This edition of Market Factors starts with the perspective of one strategist who finds historical significance in the current ...

Her computations allow physicians to more quickly diagnose and treat life-threatening genetic diseases. Sneha Goenka is one of MIT Technology Review’s 2025 Innovators Under 35. Meet the rest of this ...

Don’t ever underestimate the power of DNA on your beating heart, as it can be the root cause of heart failure. Dr. Travis Hinson, a cardiologist at UConn School of Medicine is trying to fix that.

Scientists have created Syn57, a completely synthetic bacterium with a genetic code unlike anything in nature. Unlike all known life, which uses 64 codons to build proteins, Syn57 only uses 57 — ...

We have gone further than ever before in creating life that is unlike anything that has evolved naturally. The genome of an Escherichia coli bacterium has been redesigned on a computer to use just 57 ...

One person’s junk is another’s treasure. An international team of scientists have found that strings of “junk” DNA in the human genome that were previously written off as having no useful function are ...

A scientist harvests H7N9 virus growing in bird eggs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received samples of the virus from China. — James Gathany/CDC/Douglas E. Jordan / (CC0 1.0) A ...