These tiny genetic fragments may be critical for telling a brain when to rest

The altered presence of tiny fragments of neuronal genes, called microexons, causes hyperarousal in zebrafish. This is the ...
Science Daily

This DNA repair gene went rogue and exposed a cancer weakness

Scientists have discovered that a gene normally considered a DNA-protecting "good guy" can become dangerous when cells make too much of it. The gene, EXO1, acts like molecular scissors that help ...

This New DNA Test Solves Rare Disease Mysteries That Standard Genetics Misses

A new long-read DNA test improves rare disease diagnosis, replaces multiple existing tests, and could become the preferred ...
Nature

These ‘master’ proteins protect us from deadly mutations — and could inspire new drugs

Biology has clever ways to mask the effects of potentially harmful gene mutations. Scientists are investigating how this ...
techtimes

AI Rare Disease Diagnoses: OpenAI o3 Solves 18 Cases Specialists Could Not

A smartphone displaying the ChatGPT application logo is photographed in front of an OpenAI logo screen in Tunis,Tunisia on May 20,2026. Imen Ben Youssef/Getty Images For nearly two decades, Kyra ...
Quanta Magazine

Why the Human Genome’s Tangled Physicality May Confound AI

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