Scientists probing life’s deepest origins have uncovered evidence that the first free-living cells may have emerged not once, but twice. The findings suggest a striking possibility: life may share one ...

Genetic algorithms and the recombination problem Discussions around AI creativity often focus on neural networks, which require extensive computing infrastructure and massive training datasets.

For billions of years, viruses have been written by evolution. As of Thursday, they are also being written by an algorithm — and 16 of the results are alive, replicating inside bacteria in a Palo Alto ...

The use of AI systems to create viruses opens up new possibilities for combating bacterial resistance. It also raises ...

If AI can rapidly design novel medicines, could it eventually create performance-enhancing substances that anti-doping ...

To study complex diseases like Alzheimer's, scientists and clinicians analyze how genes change and malfunction in other ...

Researchers have never had a complete baseline for understanding the DNA of marmosets, a species of tree-dwelling monkey, ...

The first complete genome of its kind could enable vital research into dementia, Alzheimer's and other diseases, say ...

“The closer we look, the more clearly we can see that early biochemical evolution was a hybrid of enzymatic and metal catalysts,” says Joseph Moran from the University of Ottawa, Canada, an ...

A new study presents the first complete T2T marmoset genome, advancing Alzheimer's research and primate genomics.

The most-cited papers of the twenty-first century That was right on the money. The influence of Köhler and Milstein’s paper in academia and industry is clear from its citations. It has been cited in ...