Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

When he was just a teenager trying to decide what to do with his life, César de la Fuente compiled a list of the world’s biggest problems. He ranked them inversely by how much money governments were ...

Every living organism has its own genetic "blueprint": the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. This blueprint is known as a genome. When scientists sequence a genome, they identify ...

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Living organisms share an ancestor called the last universal common ancestor, or LUCA. LUCA is estimated to have lived ...

This article is authored by Laxmidhar Behera, director, IIT Mandi and professor, IIT Kanpur.

Key points Genomics delves into the genetic make-up of organisms, which helps us understand how they work.With new ...

The next decade will bring changes to the global job market, driven by artificial intelligence, sustainability, healthcare ...

What if the smallest molecule of life became the ultimate medium for digital storage? Faced with the avalanche of data flooding the planet, researchers are exploring the physical structure of ...

A GitHub project has enabled encoding files as lossless video for YouTube storage, gaining 367 stars despite Terms of Service violations and account termination risk.

Extracting and analyzing relevant medical information from large-scale databases such as biobanks poses considerable challenges. To exploit such "big data," attempts have focused on large sampling ...

Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard ...