Plants are fast-tracking their own evolution by "plugging in" genetic code stolen from their neighbors, according to new research that reveals the secret to their own successful genetic engineering.

Researchers at the University of Oregon have developed an artificial intelligence tool that can read genetic code the way large language models like ChatGPT read text. Scanning the genome for ...

Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely.

We tend to think of the DNA strands that contain our genetic code as consistent, stable units. But in reality, the cells that ...