With deep learning methods revolutionizing life sciences, researchers bet on de novo proteins and cell mapping models to deliver customized precision medicines.

Scientists around the world investigate how bat immune systems cope with viral attacks and how this information could be used to keep humans safe.

Genetic adaptations for human brain development also make us vulnerable to Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study.  

Elaine Mardis can make DNA sequencers sing, generating genome data that shed light on evolution and disease.

Clinical trials that target human endogenous retroviruses to treat multiple sclerosis, ALS, and other ailments are underway, but many questions remain about how these sequences may disrupt our biology.

Tumors contain thousands of genetic changes, but only a few are actually cancer-causing. A quicker way to identify these driver mutations could lead to more targeted cancer treatments.

The gene behind a butterfly’s mimicry; the evolution of adipose fins; bacteria and bowel cancer; plants lacking plastid genomes

The 2018 award goes to Frances Arnold, Gregory Winter, and George Smith.

Jacob Halaska, ©Index Stock Imagery Researchers like mice. US government statistics reveal that the whiskered ones show up in 90% of all experiments. Mice come cheap, procreate often, and die fairly quickly. And although evolution separates mouse from human by an estimated 75 to 100 million years, biologically and genetically speaking, they share a lot; as much as 85% of the DNA in mice is the same in humans. The research ground that mice have domineered for a century, however, is reced