Researchers identified what they believe is the first documented case of a ransomware operation, JadePuffer, conducted ...

From why it was created to whether it’s alive, here’s what to know about SpudCell, the latest advance in synthetic biology.

Security firm Trusteer uncovered a 100,000-strong botnet swiping banking credentials, credit card information and other data from Windows users.

And Schafmeister isn’t the only chemist turning to modular methods of synthesis to explore vast regions of chemical space. It ...

From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.

The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can't make all their necessary internal structures or divide for ...

Researchers at Sysdig say they have observed, for the first time, a ransomware attack carried out almost entirely by an AI agent. According to the ...

Many important medicines and agricultural compounds have origins in natural products made by microorganisms. One such ...

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...

“Human genetics is at a pivotal time,” says Cecilia Lindgren, a human geneticist at the University of Oxford, UK. Although researchers have become adept at discovering disease-associated genetic ...

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