DNA is often called the blueprint of life, but what does that really mean? Elizabeth Worthey, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Genetics in the Heersink School of Medicine, explains everything ...

Over the past two decades, researchers have learned that DNA inside the cell nucleus naturally folds into a network of ...

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In 2020, Google DeepMind unveiled a technology that fundamentally changed biology forever. AlphaFold, an AI that could predict the 3D structure of proteins with stunning accuracy, solved a 50-year-old ...

A new AI model by Google DeepMind can decipher DNA and predict mutations, opening new doors for disease research. View on ...