A National Institutes of Health study will evaluate whether to screen tens of thousands of healthy infants for genetic ...

The prasinophyte green alga Pseudoscourfieldia marina exhibits striking morphological diversity, with coccoid and flagellated forms now recognized as a single species. To investigate the basis of this ...

Deep-sea researchers uncovered more than 500 million unique genes and a promising protein that could improve DNA sequencing ...

Vascular plants that moved back into the water did not simply shed complexity and shrink their genomes. New genomic work shows that many aquatic lineages instead rewire and expand key gene families, ...

Microorganisms inhabit every known niche on the planet and influence the environment and all other life on Earth. They drive biogeochemical cycles in soils, aquatic systems and the atmosphere, serve ...

Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely.

A study offering newborn babies "cutting-edge genomic screening" with the hope of identifying rare but treatable illnesses could be "life-changing" for families, doctors have said. Gloucester Royal ...

To many, the genome is a puzzle—a many-sided puzzle whose meaning stretches across your life, your children's, and your family's. To many, the genome is a puzzle—a many-sided puzzle whose meaning ...

Pipeline tested on critically ill infants before rollout. Before screening healthy newborns, the team validated their analysis pipeline on 108 previously diagnosed infants, achieving over 97% ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. William A. Haseltine, Ph.D., covers genomics and regenerative medicine Genomic screening is rapidly moving from the margins of ...