This year marks the 50th anniversary of Richard Dawkins’ seminal book, The Selfish Gene, first published by Oxford University Press on January 1, 1976, a heady time when the United […] ...

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An AI system recently helped identify a previously unknown enzyme system inside viruses that infect bacteria. What does the ...

A spatially resolved model of the yeast galactose switch shows that intracellular architecture, especially ER-bound ...

AI-designed proteins improved targeted DNA insertion in cultured cells, with one variant doubling the performance of an ...

The gene is found predominantly in Southern Appalachia and may be one of the most powerful cancer-risk mutations ever found. By Gina Kolata Between 200 and 225 years ago, someone or several someones ...

Scientists have discovered a powerful gene-targeting system in viruses. Billions of years old, VIPR seems to predate CRISPR and may be even more effective. By Carl Zimmer Over the past decade, the ...

WASHINGTON — Casting a decisive blow against President Donald Trump’s hopes of exercising federal control over the midterm elections, the Supreme Court on Monday prevented a U.S. Postal Service ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Sunday expressed restraint around the idea of artificial intelligence regulation in the wake of tech leaders pushing for a slowdown in the development. “If ...

Pokémon Champions Regulation Set MC has officially kicked off, adding 34 Pokémon to Ranked Battles. From Rillaboom and Salamence to new Mega Evolutions for Lucario and Garchomp, here is every Pokémon ...

For decades, scientists have understood that each of the roughly 20,000 genes in the human body carries the instructions for a single kind of protein. Now, researchers at Harvard Medical School have ...

A federal judge Thursday blocked a Postal Service regulation that would exert control over mail-in ballots ahead of the midterm elections in the latest setback on the issue for President Donald Trump.