Techniques for analyzing DNA have advanced, enabling scientists to better understand disease outbreaks throughout history.
J. Craig Venter's pioneering research helped define modern genomics and launched the field of synthetic biology.
A routine experiment with a new single-cell DNA sequencing method turned into a surprising scientific twist when researchers stumbled upon a bizarre genetic code in a microscopic pond organism.
Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed a new imaging method, known as RF-SIRF, that quantitatively detects and maps reversed DNA replication forks with ...
From the Black Death to the COVID-19 pandemic, combining the genetic data of a pathogen with historical records, ...
RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) is a powerful transcriptomics approach for measuring differential gene expression (DGE) across the ...
Researchers have developed a technique that can identify errors caused by mutations linked to a range of genetic disorders, ...
Researchers at the University of Oregon have developed an artificial intelligence tool that can read genetic code the way large language models like ChatGPT read text. Scanning the genome for ...
Repeats of DNA sequences, often referred to as 'junk DNA' or 'dark matter,' that are found in chromosomes and could contribute to cancer or other diseases have been challenging to identify and ...