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From a new Tyrannosaurus and many other dinosaurs to all of the living species named this year, researchers continue to chip away at the planet’s unknown biodiversity.

The year’s most impressive achievements include methods to watch translation in cells, trace cell fates, avoid mitochondrial mutations, edit DNA, and build antibiotics from scratch.

New approaches to treating cancer have shown great promise, but they also come with serious risks that give us cause for concern.

Using a modified CRISPR approach, scientists shed light on the diversity and function of 499 long noncoding RNAs.

In bacteriophage genomes, researchers find three anti-CRISPR proteins that naturally inhibit CRISPR-Cas9 in one bacterial species and can do the same in human cells. 

Scientists create a CRISPR-based, self-editing cellular–barcoding system for extensive molecular recording.

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iPSCs created through the reprogramming of human somatic cells retain genomic marks of the donor’s age.

With the Beastcam, conservation biologists can capture the minute details of endangered species in stunning 3-D models.

Scientists propose a modified critical incident reporting system to help combat the reproducibility crisis.

Researchers find evidence of antibiotic resistance genes in the DNA of viruses that infect bacteria.