New scientific theory based on ancient proteins suggests that genes did not arise as we believed and that life could have started elsewhere.

Ozempic has been making headlines for its remarkable success in treating obesity and diabetes. Yet it is just one in a ...

Abstract: Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) has become an ideal medium for long-term storage and retrieval due to its extremely high storage density and long-term stability. But access efficiency is an ...

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

Chemical engineers used a large language model to optimize DNA codon usage in the industrial yeast Komagataella phaffii. The AI-designed sequences optimized production of five proteins, offering a ...

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

Researchers develop a single genome-editing strategy to treat multiple disorders caused by nonsense mutations, promising efficient and cost-effective therapies.

When he was just a teenager trying to decide what to do with his life, César de la Fuente compiled a list of the world’s biggest problems. He ranked them inversely by how much money governments were ...

Living organisms share an ancestor called the last universal common ancestor, or LUCA. LUCA is estimated to have lived ...