Cambridge expertise has been intrinsic to a world first – loading a complete genome onto a quantum computer. The milestone ...

Most hypotheses suggest that earlier forms of life had partial genetic codes and used fewer than 20 amino acids. To test ...

Researchers use quantum computing to encode Hepatitis D virus genome ...

The odor receptors in the nose are not distributed at random but organized in a precise spatial pattern, two new studies ...

Quantum computing is at an inflection point. In recent years, quantum computers have shown the ability to run quantum programs at a scale beyond exact classical simulation. They're becoming useful ...

Shixin Liu is pioneering new ways of studying the tiny proteins that copy and read DNA in living cells. (Credit: Roshni Khatri) Inside every cell of ...

Around 8% of the human genome is made up of ancient viral sequences—endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) that integrated into our ancestors’ germline millions of years ago. Once thought to be inert genetic ...

Developing new drugs is not for the faint-hearted. “It’s a pretty perilous journey,” says Paul Nioi, vice-president of discovery and translational research at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. “It’s expensive ...

Pinchas Cohen, the pioneering scientist responsible for the naming quirk, says that peptides represent a revolution in ...

If our immune system cannot cope with a bacterial infection, antibiotics help. However, more and more bacteria are becoming resistant to treatment. The number of deaths resulting from this worldwide ...

(spidroins) through long-read transcriptomics across a broad phylogenetic range, with theoretical implications for protein family evolution, biomaterials, and silk biology. By identifying putative ...