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

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

Within bacterial cells, specialized immune systems known as retrons fend off viral attacks. But that's not all they can do.

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

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 ...

A team of researchers from the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary ...

For any organism to survive and thrive, its cells must tightly control which genes are activated when, and where.

The new study also indicates the Polynesian people who settled Rapa Nui mixed with indigenous South Americans centuries ...

At COP16, a meeting under the Convention of Biological Diversity, countries will negotiate a plan to manage access to DSI, or ...

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

In this series, ‘Genomics 101’, we go back to basics and explore some of the most important topics in genomics. In this blog, ...

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