Kim Finkelstein recently asked her mother for help with her biology homework. It wasn’t to be. “She said they didn’t have DNA [studies] in school, and she couldn’t help me,” lamented the freshman at ...

How do you explain genes and genetics to a six year old? Parents trying to home-educate their children during the lockdown can now combine their science learning with a fun bedtime story, following ...

As the annual meeting of the American Society for Human Genetics – this year held in Boston (MA, USA) from 14–18 October – ...

In the year that Zofia Gajdos has been my colleague at Dartmouth, she has become one of my favorite people. Yes, Zofia is scary smart, super productive, and deeply knowledgeable about all things ...

Within weeks of the 2025-26 fall term starting at St. Francis University, freshman Riley Hutton switched her studies from general biology to what she truly wanted to study – pre-veterinary sciences.

Deep learning models have shown great potential in predicting and engineering functional enzymes and proteins. Does this prowess extend to other fields of biology as well? Subscribe to our newsletter ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make ...

Machine learning is helping biologists solve hard problems, including designing effective synthetic biology tools. Scientists have now created a set of algorithms that can effectively predict the ...

Dr. Chen Huang’s laboratory at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is actively recruiting postdoc fellows in Computational Biology. The Huang lab strives for mechanistic understanding and ...