Zhijian “James” Chen received this year’s Albert Lasker Award for discovering cGAS, an enzyme which scopes out DNA-based ...

We can use this technology to build a map of what’s going on in there and better understand when things are disorganized like ...

GeneDx is helping patients navigate through the "diagnostic odyssey" with DNA sequencing. The biotech stock is on its own odyssey.

"Such ancient and poorly preserved DNA is quite difficult to sequence, and it took several attempts using different ...

Her skeletal remains were exhumed from Oakwood Cemetery in Wilmington last Friday and sent to a Texas-based company called ...

The first crystal structure of an alternative DNA shape from the insulin gene has been revealed by a UCL-led research team.

Researchers have gained new insights into the mechanism behind the spatial organization of DNA within the cells of early embryos. When an embryo is first formed after fertilization, each cell has the ...

Like many threatened land turtle species, the spur-thighed tortoise had no complete genome. Now for the first time, ...

Thorin — nicknamed after a dwarf in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" — is also called the "last Neanderthal" because he may ...

The best dog DNA test kits will have the largest breed databases and most transparent scientific processes. Here, expert ...

Ancient DNA has provided spectacular insights into human history, particularly in Europe and Asia, where researchers have reconstructed the genomes of thousands of people. However, fewer than two ...