Abstract: Pseudogenes, once regarded as genomic relics, have emerged as critical regulators of gene expression, influencing cancer, neurodegenerative disorders, and developmental processes. This study ...

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

I was born in Washington, DC, in 1964, the oldest of three sisters, but the place that truly formed me as a scientist was Hilo, on the Big Island of Hawaii. Growing up there, far from the mainland ...

Creatures that can change from one form to another are a staple of science fiction: Think werewolves and Transformers. Nature, too, has its shapeshifters, such as dimorphic fungi. While scientists ...

The human genome is made up of about three billion pairs of DNA units called nucleotides. Olena_T via Getty Images Scientists at Google DeepMind—the company’s artificial intelligence research arm—say ...

DNA stores the body’s operating playbook. Some genes encode proteins. Other sections change a cell’s behavior by regulating which genes are turned on or off. For yet others, the dark matter of the ...

The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal’s complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ancient animal. The woolly rhinoceros, illustrated above, is an extinct ...

Data science and machine learning teams face a hidden productivity killer: annotation errors. Recent research from Apple analyzing production machine learning (ML ...

This is a human-written story voiced by AI. Got feedback? Take our survey. (See our AI policy here.) Artificial intelligence can dash off more than routine emails. It has now written tiny working ...

Readers on TikTok and Instagram are making the aesthetics of reading more visible than ever with creative, and often intricate, annotations. Called marginalia, these markups can be elaborate, with ...