A controversial project that aims to create the building blocks of human life has started. It was previously thought creating ...

A controversial medical project has finally taken off, thanks to a hefty donation from the world's largest medical charity, the Wellcome Trust. Work has begun on creating artificial human DNA from ...

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At APL, a team is developing portable tech to detect ocean species using eDNA. Their goal: real-time, low-cost monitoring to ...

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Work has begun on a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life from scratch, in what is believed to be ...

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In a study of human immune cells infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say a ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google DeepMind today introduced AlphaGenome, a new artificial intelligence tool that can comprehensively ...

Google DeepMind builds on its AlphaFold success with AlphaGenome, a new AI that deciphers the non-coding genome to predict ...