On the left is a snapshot of single histone molecules (red) inside a cell nucleus (dotted line). On the right, we see the trajectories of these molecules’ movement over time. The colors show the path ...

Most hypotheses suggest that earlier forms of life had partial genetic codes and used fewer than 20 amino acids. To test ...

A machine learning model analyzing CpG-based DNA methylation accurately predicted the origin of many different cancer types in patients with cancers of unknown primary (CUP), according to research ...

Before a cell can divide, it has to precisely duplicate its entire genetic information. However, the DNA in the cell exists as part of a DNA-protein complex known as chromatin. For this purpose, the ...

The DNA Doe Project identified the remains found by a family on Salmon Creek Beach in Sonoma County in 2022, the sheriff’s office announced Thursday. According to the DNA Doe Project, on June 17, 2022 ...

You can download and 3D print the little spaceman from Project Hail Mary, and it's inspiring, like the movie itself. James has been writing about technology for years ...

Cracking cold cases to catch a killer has become more common, but figuring out an unidentified victim is much more complicated. But thanks to a North Bay genetic sleuth and breakthrough DNA analysis, ...

Lance Shockley, a man on death row in Missouri, wanted items from the crime scene to undergo DNA testing to potentially prove his innocence. The court scheduled proceedings on his request — but the ...

Alabama is still pushing to execute a man despite “incontrovertible DNA evidence” proving that he is innocent, according to a new brief filed this week by the Innocence Project. Last summer, a federal ...

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...