Most genes are ancient and shared across species. But a small subset of genes are relative newcomers, spontaneously emerging ...

Clinical study in Scientific Reports shows Bridge Capture™ detects key mutations from blood samples in metastatic colorectal cancer patients TURKU, ...

The nation's pediatricians are getting new guidelines for how to go about evaluating children who present with global ...

A Ph.D. graduate student in biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz, with a background in computer science and mathematics, ...

Illumina's divestiture of GRAIL boosts financials, while strong gross margins and DNA sequencing growth drive potential. See ...

The first full ancient Egyptian genome reveals ancestry from both North Africa and Mesopotamia. The individual likely worked ...

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and ...

DNA is the building block of life — it can tell us a lot about both who we are, and who we may become. DNA is also, ...

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

The U.S. FDA has approved a new test for patients with lung cancer to match the correct individuals with a targeted treatment ...

Researchers in the UK have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from an individual who lived more than ...

When genetic sequencing of the human genome began in earnest in the 1990s, autism researchers hoped to identify the genetic cause—or more likely, causes—of the condition. “Twenty years ago the ...