Genetic programming (GP) represents a class of evolutionary algorithms that automates the creation of computer programmes to solve complex problems. Coupled with symbolic regression (SR), which aims ...

Many flowering plants are currently dormant, so the current season presents an ideal time to ‘dive’ into the garden’s foliage ...

Breast cancer in young women is driven by more aggressive molecular and epidemiologic features and requires age-specific, multidisciplinary management that balances oncologic goals with fertility ...

The San Francisco Bay Area lost a beloved resident this week. Claude, an albino alligator that lived at the California Academy of Sciences, died at the age of 30.

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Programmable CRISPR tools are turning stem cell biology into something closer to software engineering, shrinking ...

A bowel cancer survivor aims to develop a "customisable" prehabilitation programme to improve the quality of life and treatment outcomes for other patients. Jodie Collins, who was diagnosed with ...

A strange, contagious cancer is threatening Tasmanian devils, but researchers’ fight is fueling breakthroughs in science, ...

Tatiana Schlossberg, the youngest granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, recently revealed she was diagnosed with terminal acute myeloid leukemia (AML) due to a rare genetic anomaly. In a ...

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...