When scientist J. Craig Venter and his team announced in 2010 that they had created the first cell controlled by a fully synthetic genome, it marked a turning point in how scientists think about life.

The human genome contains around 20,000 genes that hold instructions for making working proteins, as most genetic databases ...

His goal is to "cure and prevent all disease through AI-powered biology, frontier research, and state-of-the-art technology." ...

Mo Khalil is the Hok Lam and Kathleen Kam Wong Professor of Bioengineering and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences ...

On Thursday, OpenAI announced it had developed a large language model specifically trained on common biology workflows.

Virtual biology: As we build high-fidelity digital representations of molecules, genomes, cells, and living systems, we'll increasingly be able to ask scientific questions digitally - conducting ...

Matrix blueprint focuses on using biological processes to deliver innovation across health, food and industry ...

Sapient, a leader in multi-omics data generation for biomarker discovery and clinical insight delivery, has announced the launch of its Tumor Protein Mapping Platform as a suite of mass ...

The familiar fight between “mind as software” and “mind as biology” may be a false choice. This work proposes biological computationalism: the idea that brains compute, but not in the abstract, symbol ...

We all have about 20,000 genes in our genomes. While this diversity is what makes the human experience so rich, our genetic differences can make things more difficult when it comes to medicine and the ...

Andrew Verdesca has been studying the aging process since he was an undergraduate. As one of the “few universal human experiences,” the biology of aging has always fascinated Verdesca, who is now a Ph ...