ETH Zurich scientists have created “MetaGraph,” a revolutionary DNA search engine that functions like Google for genetic data. By compressing global genomic datasets by a factor of 300, it allows ...
A newly discovered protein from Earth's toughest animal is inspiring breakthrough therapies for cancer and cardiovascular ...
Researchers have long been attempting to piece together the trek of Neanderthals from Europe into Asia around the Middle and ...
As we enter entrepreneurship month this November, we’re celebrating the professors and alumni who are fueling job creation ...
EMBL researchers created SDR-seq, a next-generation tool that decodes both DNA and RNA from the same cell. It finally opens ...
DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...
Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?
Ancient DNA from Napoleon’s soldiers reveals enteric and relapsing fevers - not typhus - as key killers during the army’s ...
A novel tool could reduce the time it takes to diagnose and classify acute leukemias from days to hours through DNA ...
When Napoleon’s once invincible army limped out of Russia in winter 1812, frostbite and hunger were merely half the story.