Find out how genome sequencing has emerged and what the future holds for one of biotech's most important tools.

April 25 is International DNA Day, and it marks the completion of a decade-long project to sequence the DNA of Hong Kong's ...

To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...

Among the major classes of RNAs in the cell, tRNAs remain the most difficult to characterize via deep sequencing approaches, as tRNA structure and nucleotide modifications can each interfere with cDNA ...

Ingrida Domarkienė, a geneticist at Vilnius University in Lithuania, discusses the exciting developments made possible by ...

As a species, we have had a close relationship with cannabis for thousands of years now. In fact, it is among the earliest ...

Mutations fuel evolution while also causing diseases like cancer. Epigenome-targeted DNA repair can help organisms protect important genomic regions from mutation. However, the adaptive value, ...

A new study reveals that a distinct North African human lineage lived in the Central Sahara over 7,000 years ago, during the African humid period. This population had been long isolated from other ...

The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time ...

Our researchers are developing fast and portable virus sequencing techniques to track viruses in areas with limited medical ...

The findings could have applications in biotechnology, opening up perspectives for regulating gene expression without altering the underlying DNA sequence. A long search beyond the realm of ...