Scientists are one step closer to understanding the origins of complex life on Earth after shedding new light on a mystery about our microbial ancestors. The key, they suspect, may ...

Vitamin B12 Essential for Infant Brain Development, PGI Study Finds A new study from the Postgraduate Institute of Medical ...

The origin of the nucleus remains hotly debated among scientists, but new imaging and genomic data are shedding light on this billion-year-old mystery.

Scientists are trying to understand how complex life emerged on Earth about 2 billion years ago. Our microbial ancestors could be the key.

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

The DNA foundation model Evo 2, first released in February 2025 as a preprint, is now published in the journal Nature . Trained on the DNA of over ...

The DNA foundation model Evo 2 has been published in the journal Nature. Trained on the DNA of over 100,000 species across ...

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.

Researchers at Vilnius University’s Life Sciences Center (VU LSC) have discovered a surprising new function for Cas9, the famed CRISPR-Cas ‘gene scissors’, showing it plays a key role in ...

According to this model, sigma (σ) factors bind to RNA polymerase to initiate transcription—the process by which genetic information is copied from DNA to RNA—and then detach after initiation to allow ...

Researchers say they've developed a new way to treat cancer by engineering bacteria to eat tumors from the inside out.

Men are more susceptible than women to skin infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, but the biological basis for ...