Bacteriophages have been used therapeutically to treat infectious bacterial diseases for over a century. As ...

Sheep and goats may look similar, share pastures and even behave alike – but can they actually produce offspring together?

Scientists first read the human genome, a three-billion-letter biological book, in April 2003. Since then, researchers have steadily advanced the ability to write DNA, moving far beyond single-gene ...

Engineers at the University of California have developed a new data structure and compression technique that enables the field of pangenomics to handle unprecedented scales of genetic information. The ...

Aoibheann Daly, a fourth year student from Mercy Secondary School Mounthawk in Kerry, was named overall winner of the 2026 Stripe Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition, for her project GlioScope: ...

Hissing “shah!” and energetically making hand signals and grunting “Nu!” does not induce a sense of holiness. Sitting quietly ...

FOURTH-YEAR KERRY student Aoibheann Daly has won the top prize at this year’s Stripe Young Scientist and Technology ...

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By Henry A. Onwubiko“A nation that cannot control its own seeds cannot decide its destiny.” –Captain Ibrahim Troure Genetic engineering, the manipulation of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the hereditary ...

Changing an organism’s genome is a profound act, and the tools you use to make the changes don’t alleviate the need for responsible regulation. Unlike “traditional” genetically modified organisms (GMO ...

Scientists are genetically engineering microbes to withstand industrial conditions for biofuel production. Researchers found that partially suppressing genes in cyanobacteria improved their growth ...