Biologists are confronting a problem they thought they had mostly solved: what, exactly, counts as life. A wave of ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

Innovative research into the gene-editing tool targets influenza’s ability to replicate—stopping it in its tracks.

But in the 1990s the virus that causes AIDS turned out to offer a solution. Researchers discovered how to strip away HIV’s destructive genes and repurpose it as a “lentiviral vector”—a tool to deliver ...

Large language models like ChatGPT could soon drastically lower the informational barriers for planning and executing ...

Analysis of hundreds of single-cell genomes from Yellowstone National Park shows bacterial species are less cohesive than previously thought.

Life’s most indispensable molecules are not the serene, unchanging fixtures they might appear to be. Even the proteins that ...