Less than 2% of the genome codes for proteins; the rest, once called 'junk DNA', contains regulatory elements. Researchers analyzed 10,000 to reveal how variants shape gene activity.

According to Li-Qun Gu, DNA is an extremely compact, stable package of information. Natural DNA strands encode the biological ...

Three-letter DNA “words” can decide whether a yeast cell cranks out a medicine efficiently or sputters along. The words are ...

MIT researchers have built an AI language model that learns the internal coding patterns of a yeast species widely used to ...

By Hugo Francisco de Souza Trained on genomic data spanning the tree of life, Evo 2 reveals how artificial intelligence can ...

With up to $25 million from Cancer Grand Challenges, an international team led by UC San Diego professor Ludmil Alexandrov, ...

Industrial yeasts are a powerhouse of protein production, used to manufacture vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, and other useful ...

Several years worth of findings from a floating laboratory have tapped into a well-stocked coral library of taxonomic, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Thomas Begley, University at Albany, State University of New York and Marlene Belfort, ...

A medieval missive crossed centuries and continents before University of Toronto researchers made a royal discovery: it was a decree from France's notorious “Spider King.” U of T’s Old Books New ...

EADaily, March 2nd, 2026. Tomsk geneticists summed up the results of a large-scale three-year study covering the Siberian ...

Scientists are embarking on a massive new research project to identify early warning signs of more than 25 diseases, ...