Every living cell must interpret its genetic code—a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions. A ...

From DNA sequencing to fingerprint analysis, forensic scientists are using groundbreaking new tools to stop animal ...

Antibiotics are one of the greatest triumphs in the history of medical science—but these lifesaving tools have a dark side.

Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA sequencing reveals how these two populations also intermingled.

He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.

MicroGenDX Ushers in Next-Day NGS Results ORLANDO, FLORIDA / ACCESS Newswire / July 7, 2025 / MicroGenDX, a national leader ...

Males imprint their DNA by adding methyl modifications to it in a way that alters the activity of genes in order to promote ...

Google's DeepMind launches AlphaGenome, an artificial intelligence model that predicts gene expression from DNA sequence.

Researchers have sequenced the first whole ancient Egyptian genome from an individual who lived 4,500 to 4,800 years ago — ...

But while experts now know a fair amount about ancient Egyptian life, they still understand very little about the ...