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PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Just as the transistor and microscope unlocked new waves of discovery, today, GenBio AI opens the doors to a new era of scientific exploration with ...

The so-called “circle of life” dictates that if a living thing exists, it’s probably food for something else. Viruses, however, have historically managed to escape this unofficial rule. Although ...

Scientists have succeeded in creating the first organism with 'alien' DNA. In normal DNA, which can be found within the genes of every organism , the twin strands of the double helix are bonded ...

PITTSBURGH—Researchers in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with paleontologists from Spain and Poland, used fossil evidence to engineer a soft ...

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A microscopic fresh-water plankton has been identified as the first-known life form that gobbles up and thrives on viruses, scientists have announced. The tricky science behind reviving ‘zombie ...

A light microscopy image shows the marine algae Braarudosphaera bigelowii, which is a potentially large evolutionary step. This algae absorbed a bacterium called UCYN-A and formed a new organelle ...

added Zach Patterson, CMU alumnus and co-first author. Now that the team has demonstrated that they can use Softbotics to engineer extinct organisms, they hope to explore other animals, like the first ...