Following the firm’s bankruptcy, researchers hope that they will still be able to access the valuable data set even if it is sold to new owners. Once a darling of Silicon Valley, the consumer-genomics company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy and legal permission to auction off its assets — inclu...

Generative artificial intelligence has entered a new frontier of fundamental biology: helping scientists to better understand proteins, the workhorses of living cells. Scientists have developed two new AI tools to decipher proteins often missed by existing detection methods, researchers report Ma...

Many firms are misusing the ‘open source’ label. The scientific community, which relies on transparency and replicability, must resist this trend. Some 50 years ago this month, the Homebrew Computer Club — a do-it-yourself group of computer enthusiasts and hobbyists — began meeting in Menlo ...