In cancer research, one person's junk is increasingly becoming another person's treasure. Scientists have now uncovered new evidence showing how recently evolved "junk DNA" genetic elements can become ...

MGI Tech Co., Ltd. (MGI), a company committed to developing core tools and technologies that drive innovation in life sciences, today launched Go Spatial in Europe and welcomed Omics Empower GmbH as a ...

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really a living organism – yet ...

From early research to quality control, maintaining analytical continuity is no easy task. Could a single sequencing workflow help simplify analytical assessment?

Precision medicine is advancing rapidly, but access remains limited. Experts highlight unmet needs, how science is translated ...

Discover why animal models fall short in AI drug discovery and how human-first datasets and functional genomics are changing ...

Over the past decade, the Human Cell Atlas community has accomplished something that will define a generation of biology.

There is a particular kind of progress that doesn't make the front page. It doesn't arrive with a press release or a ...

A Florida cop pulled over what he thought was a distracted driver using her cellphone while she whizzed past him — but was floored when he learned she only had one hand. Kathleen Thomas, 36, was ...

Scientists uncovered evidence that human blood cells may trace their origins back to single-celled ancestors that lived 700 million years ago. By rebuilding the evolutionary family tree of blood cells ...

Scientists have known for more than a century that a single-celled organism with no nerve cells — much less a brain — can behave in ways that resemble learning. But those observations only went so far ...