Human DNA contains roughly 3 billion letters of genetic code. However, we understand only a fraction of what this vast ...

Google DeepMind has introduced a new AI tool called AlphaGenome. It reads long stretches of human DNA and predicts ...

The Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG) will take decades to complete and cost anything from millions to hundreds of ...

A strategy that analyzes the structural properties of RNA could help identify regions that are promising targets for antiviral drugs.

They also tend to evolve more rapidly than protein-coding sequences. It is the second R&D alliance involving lncRNAs in recent weeks, coming after Bayer signed a $547 million partnership with ...

Cucumbers, a summer staple of salads and sandwiches, are a valuable commercial crop. They also have a less well-known role as ...

Genetics is a fascinating and rapidly evolving field. What we learned in school was a valuable foundation, but modern science has revealed a far more intricate and dynamic picture. By understanding ...

Cucumbers, a summer staple of salads and sandwiches, are a valuable commercial crop. They also have a less well-known role as ...

Emerging ‘co-scientist’ systems use teams of chatbots to mimic the deliberations of a research group. Do they really help?

Insects possess a remarkable ability to develop innate immune memory, and the mechanisms underlying this process are becoming a central topic in innate immunity research.

It has genes for ribosomes, tRNAs, and mRNAs. These components are the scaffolding of life: the tools by which cells read ...

Long non-coding RNAs articles from across Nature Portfolio Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA) are a type of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) that exceed 200 nucleotides in length. lncRNAs are a relatively ...