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Mars-like shock and chemical stress reveal ribonucleoprotein condensates as a key survival mechanism in yeast. Life on Mars, ...

Protein scientists could improve reproducibility and coordination across the field by rallying around a small, shared set of ...

Singapore-based Umami Bioworks has launched what it calls a Virtual Marine Cell, a metabolic model powered by augmented ...

Respiratory infections are among the leading causes of illness and death in the elderly, driven by immune aging, chronic ...

Large language models have grown so vast and complex that even the people who build them no longer fully understand how they work. A single modern ...

The molecular clock is based on a simple idea: genetic changes happen gradually and predictably over time. By working ...

Non-coding DNA is essential for both humans and trypanosomes, despite the large evolutionary divergence between these two species.

New method reveals chemical signs of early microbial life in ancient Earth rocks, showing photosynthesis evolved much earlier ...