Scientists found that the 3D organization of DNA is disrupted in several types of brain cells affected by Alzheimer’s disease ...
DNA molecules should repel one another because their backbones carry the same negative charge. Yet inside cells, DNA ...
More than two decades after scientists first sequenced the entire human genome—all 3 billion base pairs, of DNA code—the ...
AlphaGenome Atlas, Google DeepMind's new 1-petabyte genomics database, pre-computes predicted molecular effects for all 9 ...
An international team of scientists, including Donald Danforth Plant Science Center member emerita Elizabeth "Toby" Kellogg, ...
Matthew Herper covers medical innovation — both its promise and its perils. J. Craig Venter, a scientist whose relentless ambition helped turn genetics from an artisanal trade into an industrialized ...
Atlases have long helped humans navigate unfamiliar terrain. And now a new atlas from Google DeepMind aims to better map the ...
Latin American people are represented in fewer than 4% of genetic epidemiological studies around the world. When they are included, they're often lumped together as one group, despite the rich ...
Museum bones holding tiny scraps of DNA were enough to rebuild two missing branches of the Galápagos tortoise family tree.
The well-known geneticist and synthetic biologist, J. Craig Venter, died on April 29, 2026. According to a press release from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), he was hospitalized after ...