Leafcutter ants live in highly organized colonies where every ant has a job, and now researchers can flip those jobs like a ...

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The Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is a DOE Office of Science (SC) national user facility operated by Lawrence Berkeley ...

Editas Medicine ( EDIT 12.04%) is a promising clinical-stage company that has captured Wall Street's attention at the ...

A turtle’s head seems simple: a hard beak, two bright eyes, and a quilt of scales that protect the skull. Look closer and a ...

When it comes to storing images, DNA strands could be a sustainable, stable alternative to hard drives. Researchers at EPFL are developing a new image compression standard designed specifically for ...

Every year, thousands of infants in America are diagnosed with devastating genetic diseases through newborn screenings. The ...

At Miami-Dade’s public hospital system Jackson Health, new advancements in genetic research recently helped doctors modify a ...