With climate change and more frequent extreme weather events, researchers predict that global yields of important crops like ...

Scientists are trying to sequence the DNA of Leonardo da Vinci to identify if the remains at his interment site really are ...

Scientists in Colombia have discovered a previously unknown lineage of human beings after fully sequencing the DNA of ancient ...

New research links an ancient DNA sequence to neuron growth, brain-cell balance, and a cognitive flexibility trait that may ...

The non-coding genome, once dismissed as "junk DNA", is now recognized as a fundamental regulator of gene expression and a ...

Roche has put forward a new approach to genetic analysis, which it describes as sequencing-by-expansion—a proprietary method that pulls apart the DNA molecule and amplifies the signal of each ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

Table 1. Comparison of DNA methylation sequencing technologies. Whole-genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS) remains the gold standard for comprehensive DNA methylation analysis. It provides base-pair ...

A new discovery about mutations in a gene that causes ALS may allow researchers to design targeted therapies, a study found.