Wild animals adapted to extreme environments, such as hibernating bears, sub-Antarctic birds or deep-sea worms, hold molecular secrets that could revolutionize medicine. Now, researchers have ...

A new method of examining gene expression patterns called landscape transcriptomics may help pinpoint what causes bumble bees stress and could eventually give insight into why bee populations are ...

With its speedy growth and adaptability, E. coli has spent many years at the top of the "model organism" list, with no signs of slipping. But E. coli is a blip in a rich microbial world ...

The first version of the model, released last year, was trained on the genomes of 80,000 bacteria and archaea — simple organisms called prokaryotes — as well as those of their viruses and ...

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1 Hoffman's team reported that on the East Coast of Australia, the classical latitudinal genetic clines of Drosophila have shifted over the past 20 years an equivalent of 4 degrees latitude (some 400 ...

Model organisms are invaluable tools for understanding the mechanisms and consequences of toxic exposures. They provide ethically viable and scientifically robust alternatives to mammalian models, ...

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Last month, Tesla launched the refreshed version of the world’s best-selling car, the Model Y, which brought a whole lot of styling and comfort features to the re-engineered model. Now, it appears ...

Yale scientists have reprogrammed the genetic code of an organism, creating a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with only one stop codon, enabling the production of synthetic proteins with new ...

AI startup Anthropic is gearing up to release its next major AI model, according to a report Thursday from The Information. The report describes Anthropic’s upcoming model as a “hybrid” that ...