DNA is the blueprint of life. Genes encode proteins and serve as the body's basic components. However, building a functioning ...

Every living organism has its own genetic "blueprint": the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. This ...

A research team led by the A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR GIS) have developed a method to accurately and efficiently read DNA containing non-standard bases—a task once thought too ...

EMBARGOED UNTIL WEDNESDAY, 14. AUGUST 2024, 17:00 CEST (16:00 LONDON TIME, 11:00 US EASTERN TIME) Join us as we travel back in time! We have arrived in the Devonian period, some 420 to 360 million ...

Twenty-five years ago this week, President Bill Clinton stood before a podium in the East Room of the White House, and, in front of an all-star lineup of researchers and dignitaries, made a historic ...

Google DeepMind's VP of Research, Pushmeet Kohli, suggests that AI's next major biological breakthrough could be ...

Genome sequencing is becoming affordable, fast, and poised to revolutionize medicine. But, how much can your genes tell you about your medical fate? And, will genome scans become a routine part of ...

What can knowing the sequence of all the DNA in pigs tell us about human diseases? Plenty, says Lawrence Schook. He heads an international consortium to sequence the pig genome that is announcing its ...

NEW YORK – Scientists have decoded the DNA of a celebrated “living fossil” fish, gaining new insights into how today’s mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds evolved from a fish ancestor. The African ...

The global single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping market size was valued at USD 7.24 billion in 2025 and is predicted to hit around USD 19.48 billion by 2034, rising at a 11.7% CAGR, a study ...

Less than 2% of the genome codes for proteins; the rest, once called 'junk DNA', contains regulatory elements. Researchers ...