The truth is that, while DNA testing is often touted as being 99.9% accurate, that tiny remaining fraction is where thousands ...

Stress, ageing, cancer. There are still no magic solutions but one factor linking all three holds out hope. And that, says Nobel Laureate Jack Szostak, is the telomere, which lies at the end of ...

Nick Edwards, PhD, CEO of Potato, has a “burning desire” to speed up scientific discovery. In an interview with GEN, he explained how Potato’s AI “scientist,” named Tater, recently replicated a main ...

A genetic predisposition to obesity, even for women with a healthy BMI, appears to raise the chances of early death after ...

In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

Ocugen has announced the publication of positive results from its phase 1 GARDian1 trial of OCU410ST, a gene therapy for ...

The vaginal microbiome, a complex ecosystem inhabited by diverse microbial communities, plays a pivotal role in maintaining reproductive health and protecting against infections. Recent advancements ...

Brazil holds a record number of supercentenarians, people who live healthy lives past 110. What is the secret to their ...

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...

Mutations in the tumor suppressor TP53 are a common cause of cancer, making the altered protein an attractive target for ...

Engineers at the University of California have developed a new data structure and compression technique that enables the ...