The vampire squid is a creature straight out of a gothic horror film. It lurks in the deep-sea abyss, cloaked in dark, webbed ...

A new study has found that advances in whole- genome sequencing are enabling earlier diagnoses for children with rare genetic ...

A backyard creature that’s famous for having spikes laced with over 150 painful venoms could have hidden benefits for humans.

Three-year-old Nathaniel Clayton started having problems with his vision when he was just six months old. After numerous ...

Alnylam, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Novo Nordisk will collaborate with PRECISE to analyze whole-genome and other data on 100,000 Singaporeans.

A mysterious deep-sea creature has just helped scientists solve a long-standing evolutionary puzzle. The vampire squid—an ...

A major milestone has been reached, with experts across Europe, including those at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, sequencing 1,000 species of butterflies and moths. This includes ...

About 400 years ago, a cross between cabernet franc and sauvignon blanc gave birth to cabernet sauvignon. Today, cabernet ...

New studies of canine genetics shed light on the diversity of dogs and our longstanding, still-evolving relationship to them.

Tech-savvy parents to be are using IVF and screening embryos to build families in ways that were unimaginable a few short years ago.

A new study published in the Journal of Infection utilizes Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) to identify the sources of Salmonella infections across Europe. The research aimed to assess the relative ...

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