Artificial intelligence can design toxins that evade security controls. A team at Microsoft says it used artificial intelligence to discover a "zero day" vulnerability in the biosecurity systems used ...

Sequencing mammoth DNA has already helped scientists map out how these Ice Age giants evolved, migrated, and survived. But there's a hidden layer of history still waiting to be decoded – the microbes ...

A new study in fruit flies describes how an animal's gut reacts differently to beneficial microbes versus harmful pathogens. A pathway known for repairing damaged genetic material, called the ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- DNA evidence has helped to identify a man who died decades ago as a new suspect in the 1991 killing of four teenage girls, after authorities linked him to multiple killings in other ...

A clump of proteins seems to be in charge of the level of DNA repair that takes place in our bodies, determining how fast mutations accumulate in our cells over a lifetime – and might thus affect our ...

A report said DNA collected at checkpoints from about 2,000 Americans, mostly during the Biden administration, was sent to an F.B.I. database. Hundreds were not charged. By Francesca Regalado ...

Investigators in Prince William County, Virginia, used an advanced test to distinguish the DNA of identical twins and solve a decades-old rape case. In December 1987, a man burst into a gas station ...

Researchers from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNIST and the Center for Genomic Integrity at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) have announced an advance in cancer gene therapy. Their ...

This came up in a front page discussion recently, and I promised I'd do a bit of a brain dump. The motivation: people often talk about whether we're regulating the risks posed by exposure to radiation ...

Workers separated by visa type during raid U.S. officials cite visa violations for detentions Images of shackled workers cause outrage in South Korea INCHEON, South Korea, Sept 12 (Reuters) - South ...

Reporting in Nature, scientists have identified a novel process that protects the ends of chromosomes from incorrectly applied DNA repair. Although DNA repair is a crucial mechanism that can protect a ...

Renee Anderson is a digital producer at CBS New York, where she covers breaking news and other local stories. Before joining the team in 2016, Renee worked at WMUR-TV. A judge in the Gilgo Beach ...