Every new life begins after a genetic shuffle. When organisms make eggs or sperm, maternal and paternal chromosomes pair up ...

Every time a eukaryotic cell divides, it faces a monumental challenge: It must carefully duplicate and divide its genetic ...

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A state judge may have stripped the terrorism label from Luigi Mangione’s indictment, but with murder charges intact in New ...

An international team of scientists has revealed how rogue rings of DNA that float outside of our chromosomes – known as extrachromosomal DNA, or ecDNA – can drive the growth of a large proportion of ...

A few months back, we reported on the slightly surprising news that Alex Garland—whose filmography runs through strange, frequently subversive, but also highly modern cinematic worlds like ...

Taylor Swift getting engaged and her flashy new ring might have you daydreaming about engagement rings. Diamonds might come to mind first, but other options are also grabbing attention. Beyond the ...

Ever since Samsung introduced the Galaxy Ring, I’ve wanted Google to make a smart ring. I initially imagined it would be a Pixel Ring — something that would fit into the existing wearable portfolio ...

Since 2018, Slate critic Willa Paskin has explored bizarre and delightful cultural phenomena from “Baby Shark” to Chuck E. Cheese to try to understand what makes people obsessed with arbitrary ...

The puzzle seems impossible: take a three-billion-letter code and predict what happens if you swap a single letter. The code we’re talking about—the human genome—stores most of its instructions in ...