More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...

Antibiotics are one of the greatest triumphs in the history of medical science—but these lifesaving tools have a dark side.

An artificial intelligence (AI) model developed by Google DeepMind in London could help scientists to make sense of this ...

WASHINGTON — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia , according to ...

The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the ...

Google's DeepMind launches AlphaGenome, an artificial intelligence model that predicts gene expression from DNA sequence.

Males imprint their DNA by adding methyl modifications to it in a way that alters the activity of genes in order to promote ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

Researchers have sequenced the first whole ancient Egyptian genome from an individual who lived 4,500 to 4,800 years ago — the oldest DNA sample from Egypt to date. The body belongs to an adult male ...

But while experts now know a fair amount about ancient Egyptian life, they still understand very little about the ...

Tyler Kartzinel likens protecting biodiversity to enhancing cellphone networks. His analogy is pretty straightforward: look for gaps in coverage, and then do what’s needed to fill them. “Engineers ...