By making the world's microbial DNA easier to explore, a new sequence alignment tool, LexicMap, lets scientists search for a ...

DNA of 117-year-old woman suggests good genetics, healthy lifestyle choices, and yogurt could contribute to a longer life.

The algal blooms increasingly seen in Canadian lakes have been linked to both nutrient pollution from agricultural runoff and ...

Life sciences company Element Biosciences sued Illumina on Monday in separate cases in federal courts in California and ...

Sequencing mammoth DNA has already helped scientists map out how these Ice Age giants evolved, migrated, and survived. But ...

A judge in New York rejected a request on 23 September to disqualify the use of cutting-edge DNA sequencing as evidence in a ...

Advances in machine learning, automation, and predictive analytics promise to enhance the accuracy, speed, and scalability of ...

Genetic newborn screening supports early identification of a child’s critical condition, guiding to a better start in life.

The error rate of a promising gene-editing tool can be reduced up to 60-fold by introducing mutations that change where the ...

Researchers from the University of Birmingham's Bladder Cancer Research Center have used a new method to detect chemical ...

At the WIRED Health summit, biochemist David Liu said his lab is on the verge of revealing a new gene-editing technique that ...

Genetic-sequencing techniques have uncovered the oldest host-associated microbial DNA ever recorded — inside samples of teeth and bones from woolly and steppe mammoths. An analysis of the bones and ...