The team at the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology calls their creation Syn57. It is a synthetic ...

Scientists Rewrite the Genetic Code of E. Coli, and It’s Drastically Different From Anything Found in Nature The synthetic bacteria contain a shorter genetic code with 57 codons rather than 64 ...

New research links an ancient DNA sequence to neuron growth, brain-cell balance, and a cognitive flexibility trait that may ...

Deep inside the body, a slow-growing cluster of mutated blood cells can form. This cluster, found in 1 in 5 older adults, can raise the risk of leukemia and heart disease, often without warning. To ...

Despite those viral charts you may have seen, conscientiousness among young people doesn't actually seem to be in "freefall." ...

The EHR giant Epic is hosting its annual User Group Meeting this week. Follow along for live updates from Newsweek's Health ...

Arrow worms, or chaetognaths, are strange ocean predators that have puzzled scientists for more than a century. They have transparent, torpedo-shaped bodies, sharp grasping spines near their ...

A University of Queensland study suggests the antivenom given to people bitten by Eastern Brown Snakes may not be as ...

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the deadliest forms of cancer, largely driven by mutations in the KRAS gene—once considered impossible to target.

Now, scientists have redesigned the genetic code of the bacterium Escherichia coli to contain just 57 of the 64 codons. The findings were published in late July in Science.

GPT-5, a new release from OpenAI, is the latest product to suggest that progress on large language models has stalled.