Researchers have developed a way to program human cells to perform calculations and make autonomous decisions, similar to how ...

A handful of start-up firms are testing therapies that target specific epigenetic markers to treat everything from high ...

A new statistical framework could speed up the search for rare mutations that cause common diseases, helping researchers zero ...

The 2026 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize has been awarded to five scientists for their work leading to curative genetic ...

Genome editing lets scientists rewrite DNA, the instruction manual inside every living cell, with a precision that was unthinkable a generation ago. Technologies such as CRISPR have made this almost ...

For more than 20 years, scientists treated ghrelin as the body’s master hunger switch. A new look at snake genomes suggests ...

A record 177 Burmese pythons weighing 8,080 pounds and more than 4,000 eggs were removed from Florida this breeding season.

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

Florida's Python Elimination Program pays certified hunters to remove the invasive snakes from the Everglades. Burmese pythons have caused a severe decline in native small mammal populations in South ...

A new study has uncovered new genetic rules that determine how CD8 “killer” T cells choose between becoming long-lasting, protective immune cells or slipping into exhausted, dysfunctional states.

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- New York City is launching a groundbreaking program to prevent sudden deaths. The city's medical examiner will offer free genetic screening to at-risk family members of people ...

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