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A creature smaller than a grain of sand has discovered a surprising method of surviving damage that can break its DNA apart. It lives in the mosses and lichens, in the thin films of water that show up after rain and disappear when the area dries...

Modern sequencing technologies have turned biology into a data-heavy science. The human genome has about three billion DNA base pairs, and sequencing can produce massive datasets quickly. Bioinformatics helps organize and interpret this information,...

This question led to the AlphaGenome Atlas (https://deepmind.google.com/science/alphagenome/atlas?), a detailed map of nearly every possible single-letter change in the human genome. Instead of checking each change one by one, researchers can use...

Imagine waking up one day and realizing that somewhere in a laboratory, a scientist is reading the DNA of a whale. Somewhere else, another team is sequencing a rare plant, while researchers in India are decoding the genomes of diverse human...