Million-year-old skull found in China could rewrite human evolution timeline, study finds: "This changes a lot of thinking"

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

AI reveals hidden features of a developing embryo model

Scientists have sought to capture the first days of how a person comes to be, by recreating those early moments in a lab via ...

Mapping 'dark' regions of the genome illuminates how cells respond to their environment

Researchers at Duke University used CRISPR technologies to discover previously unannotated stretches of DNA in the "dark ...

Million-year-old skull could rewrite timeline of human origin, researchers say

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to researchers.
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AI Has Designed Living Genomes—And They Worked in the Lab

Stanford AI wrote full viral genomes that worked—16 lab-built phages show life can now be designed, not just discovered.