New AI model takes minutes rather than days to predict how a specific DNA sequence will arrange itself in the cell nucleus.

Every cell in your body contains the same genetic sequence, yet each cell expresses only a subset of those genes. These ...

The DNA ingredients discovered on the asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission suggest that life-building blocks exist ...

From being a promising yet underexplored approach in the 1990s, mRNA therapeutics have evolved dramatically. The discovery of ...

Scientists have discovered numerous organic compounds in samples from the asteroid Bennu, including key amino acids and the ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

Two science teams pored over samples from the B-type asteroid Bennu, finding chemicals linked to the beginnings of life and ...

DNA transcription is the vital first step needed for switching on our genes. For a gene to be switched on, it must be acted ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...