AI-guided design of 16 functional bacteriophage genomes offers a path for phage-based therapies against antibiotic-resistant infections.

How did digits evolve? While it is clear that they derive from genetic programs already present in fish, their precise origin ...

The genome structure — how genes are organized within DNA sequences in an organism — is fundamental to the processes and functions of organisms. A team at the University of Tokyo has developed a ...

New research into the genetics of Anopheles funestus (An. funestus), one of the most neglected but prolific ...

Scientists sequenced the Atlas blue butterfly genome for the first time, revealing its 229 chromosome pairs and new insights ...

Directed evolution is usually a laborious process that often takes weeks in which proteins rapidly evolve and develop ...

Imagine how much better our parties would be! While our evolution into trans-human party machines may still be a million ...

The only remaining autonomous 'jumping gene' can only attach to, and stitch a copy of itself into, DNA when it builds up into large clusters and only as cells divide. Viruses are known to use the ...

Heterostyly, a floral polymorphism where a species produces two or three distinct flower types with reciprocal arrangements ...

Learn more about the longest documented case of COVID-19 found in an American man living with HIV.