From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research ...

At the core of every AI coding agent is a technology called a large language model (LLM), which is a type of neural network ...

Next Gen Diagnostics (NGD) today announced that January 1 the Company will spin off its Infection Prevention division into an independent company, NGD Infection Prevention, focused on the ...

The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) was established to protect public health. Now it's being used against it.

The authors of a new Australian study say they have identified a set of 32 genetic variants that increase the likelihood of ...

Scientists chart a comprehensive cell atlas of the developing human reproductive system, offering new clues into congenital disorders.

Researchers demonstrated that it is feasible to encode executable payloads into synthetic DNA that, once sequenced and processed, could trigger malware in sequencing software. When a vulnerability in ...

We are living in an era where biology has become synonymous with big data due to the ever-increasing amount of data being generated by technologies such as next-generation sequencing. Bioinformatics ...