For decades, the dream of fixing harmful mutations in mitochondrial DNA felt out of reach. Scientists have long known these ...

If most of our DNA is junk, could we cut those useless chains and still have a functional cell? This question was originally answered on Quora by Adriana Heguy.

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have reconciled two closely related but contentious mechanisms underlying ...

You also get to train on the genome itself: the genes as they are, next to each other on the genome. When you train a protein language model, you basically take a whole genome and cut out all the ...

Then they use these "scissors" to cut out pieces of the invader's DNA, ... scientists at Cornell University created a mathematical model to see how rapidly gene drive could cause a gene to spread ...

Nanopore sensors provide a useful way of analysing single molecules, such as DNA. Here, the authors present a nanopore-based single-molecule reactor, into which DNA can be fed and removed, and ...