Scientists have broken the world record for sequencing DNA and they're already using the new tech to help care for newborns ...

Centuries-old genetic material can solve historical mysteries, from lost species to what killed Napoleon’s army.

Cornell researchers have found that a new DNA sequencing technology can be used to study how transposons move within and bind ...

With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their ...

Cornell (NY, USA) researchers have found that a new DNA sequencing technology can be used to study how transposons move ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their epigenetics—meticulously placed chemical tags that influence which genes are expressed in ...

Technologies needed for tracing engineered biothreats back to their sources are advancing rapidly. Here are some ...

Genomic analysis of more than 2,700 dog and wolf genomes shows that most modern dogs carry small traces of post-domestication ...

Researchers have discovered new regions of the human genome particularly vulnerable to mutations. These altered stretches of ...

For decades, biologists treated DNA as a static string of letters, a linear code that cells read like text on a page. A new ...

With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to ...