Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they're able ...

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine alumnus and former faculty member Hamilton O. Smith, M.D., whose 1978 Nobel Prize-winning discovery of restriction enzymes revolutionized genetic ...

Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is one of life's most versatile molecules, with roles going far beyond being a messenger of genetic ...

Switzerland launches a major AI project to advance precision oncology and bring artificial intelligence into cancer diagnosis and treatment.

For more than 40 years, the person responsible for the brutal rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl on Long Island has eluded capture. DNA from a smoothie straw, prosecutors say, could now be the key ...

The estimated Powerball jackpot is $258 million. The lump sum payment before taxes would be about $120.8 million. The Double Play is a feature that gives players in select locations another chance to ...

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The rings of DNA inside mitochondria are inaccessible to these techniques, which means that precise edits to mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) remain frustratingly out of reach. “Mitochondria missed the ...

The Internet has Google. Now biology has MetaGraph. Detailed today in Nature, the search engine can quickly sift through the staggering volumes of biological data housed in public repositories. “It’s ...

EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 has ordered what is certain to be a controversial documentary that analyzes a sample of Adolf Hitler’s DNA. Blink Films is making Hitler’s DNA: Blueprint of a Dictator. Blink has ...

BEIJING—Under intense pressure from authorities in China, Ezra Jin persisted for years in building one of the nation’s largest underground Christian churches, with branches in 40 cities across the ...

The FA Cup is back for its 145th edition in the 2025/26 season, sparking dreams of giant-killings and glory for underdogs across the country. Established in 1871, it remains the pinnacle of English ...