Anxious or outgoing? Huge study links ‘Big Five’ personality traits to genetic variants
Personality plays into how people think, feel, behave and interact with their environment.Credit: PeopleImages/Getty A study of more…
New study uncovers bacterial route to testosterone production
Many prostate cancers depend on androgen hormones, including testosterone, to grow. That is why treatments for advanced disease…
Translating genomic data into healthcare practice with the Singapore National Precision Medicine program
Precision Health Research, Singapore (PRECISE), Singapore, Singapore Shih Wee Seow, Clement Qiwen Sin, Denise Xin Yi Chua, Emily Shu Fang Lau, Gloria…
Genetic trade-offs in fertility and longevity explain the maintenance of disease-associated alleles in humans
Welter, D. et al. The NHGRI GWAS Catalog, a curated resource of SNP-trait associations. Nucleic Acids Res. 42,…
Uninherited parental genes leave lasting imprint on children’s lives
Our parents’ genes, even the ones we didn’t inherit, leave a measurable lasting imprint on our lives. An…
Ancient ground squirrels feasted on carcasses like ‘zombies of the Pleistocene’
Ground squirrels go into a hibernation state called torpor for up to eight months. Credit: Image Professionals GmbH/Alamy…
How the UK Is Turning Sovereign AI Ambition Into Action With NVIDIA Technologies
A year ago at London Tech Week, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and U.K. Prime Minister Keir…
Population discontinuity in the Paris Basin linked to evidence of the Neolithic decline
We sampled the cementum layer of 182 teeth excavated from Bury (Supplementary Table 1) and sequenced these to…
AI can write genomes — how long until it creates synthetic life?
Evo 2 is an AI model designed to read, interpret, and generate sequences of DNA, RNA, and proteins.Credit:…
Genome modelling and design across all domains of life with Evo 2
Nguyen, E. et al. Sequence modeling and design from molecular to genome scale with Evo. Science 386, eado9336…
How DeepMind’s genome AI could help solve rare disease mysteries
Researchers at a Hackathon used AlphaGenome to search for the genetic causes of 29 undiagnosed diseases.Credit: Peter Kováč/Alamy…
Wolf pup’s stomach yields DNA from one of world’s last surviving woolly rhinos
Woolly rhinos (Coelodonta antiquitatis) lived in Eurasia during the Pleistocene period (artist’s impression).Credit: Mark P. Witton/SPL Roughly 14,400…