The global crisis of diminishing biological diversity is challenging our current ability to monitor changes in ecosystems.

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?

We are now in the second great wave of the genetic revolution, not defined by reading the human code of life, but by rewriting it.

When Napoleon’s once invincible army limped out of Russia in winter 1812, frostbite and hunger were merely half the story.

The enhanced ability to synthesise DNA, RNA and peptides has transformed biotechnology, enabling tremendous advances in ...

The federal government has been—and must remain—a critical partner in foundational technological innovation and research ...

EMBL researchers created SDR-seq, a next-generation tool that decodes both DNA and RNA from the same cell. It finally opens ...

MyHeritage becomes the first major DNA testing company to fully adopt Whole Genome Sequencing; the upgrade leverages technology by Ultima Genomics and processing at the Gene by Gene lab MyHeritage, ...

The Internet has Google. Now biology has MetaGraph. Detailed today in Nature, the search engine can quickly sift through the staggering volumes of biological data housed in public repositories. “It’s ...

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