J ohn Moult remembers the time he was floored by an algorithm. Moult, one of the organizers of the Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction (CASP) competitions and a computational biologist ...

The lab as we know it today is being transformed by how we think about medical research and drug discovery, as well as the intersection of artificial intelligence and biotechnology. As someone who has ...

Researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in collaboration with Roche, have developed a next-generation ...

Bioengineers at Queen Mary University of London have taken a significant step forward in the development of laboratory-based models of human tissues that may be used as alternatives to animal testing.

Because microbes are always adapting to changes, they could revolutionize how we think of computers—and how computers think.

Given troves of data about genes and cells, A.I. models have made some surprising discoveries. What could they teach us someday? Credit...Doug Chayka Supported by By Carl Zimmer In 1889, a French ...

Octopus arms coordinate nearly infinite degrees of freedom to perform complex movements such as reaching, grasping, fetching, crawling, and swimming. How these animals achieve such a wide range of ...

When Amos Abolaji returned to Nigeria from a year abroad, he brought home a strange souvenir — two jars full of fruit flies. The biochemist had been conducting postdoctoral research at the Federal ...