We spoke to David Klenerman, co-developer of sequencing by synthesis, to find out how his work heralded the next generation ...

Doctors take a sample of the baby’s blood, usually by pricking its heel, and test for proteins and other markers associated ...

Carrie Reeves was about three years old when her mother disappeared. Over 40 years later, Reeves learned that wasn't what ...

Environmental DNA from rivers worldwide reveals how climate boosts fish diversity—and how human activity is disrupting that ...

The US has announced a landmark partnership with Colossal Biosciences to build a DNA biobank preserving the genetic material.

The closest thing marine taxonomists have to the Olympics is now underway in San Diego. But instead of racing for medals, leading scientists are spending two weeks working together to catalog the ...

A joint research team has developed an automated design technology that enables the creation of DNA origami structures that ...

Scientists have long known that the DNA code in genes is not the only way to pass genetic traits from parents to offspring. "Epigenetic" marks—chemical modifications to DNA that don't change the DNA ...

Scientists found that some inherited traits can bypass the traditional rules of genetics, revealing a surprising new layer of ...

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

Plague was already a deadly killer 5,500 years ago, long before cities, farming, or the rat-infested conditions usually ...