In a single experiment, scientists can decipher the entire genomes of many patient samples, animal models, or cultured cells.

Discover how CRISPR genome editing is revolutionizing medicine. Learn the science of Cas9, current clinical trials, and the future of gene editing.

Scientists have uncovered an enormous hidden archive of plant DNA that has endured for more than 400 million years. By comparing hundreds of plant genomes, researchers identified more than 2.3 million ...

PacBio’s Revio system and SPRQ-Nx chemistry to enable an order-of-magnitude expansion of HiFi metagenomic sequencing for ...

Paul Conyngham's 8-year-old rescue dog had a fatal skin cancer. He turned to AI to see if he could create a personalized anti-cancer vaccine.

More than 2.3 million ancient genetic switches discovered in plants reveal how key growth controls endured 300 million years ...

Researchers uncovered millions of ancient plant DNA switches—some older than flowering plants themselves—revealing a hidden evolutionary blueprint stretching back 400 million years. Most people have ...

A desert community lives on a diet of blood and meat that would make most people sick.

A Snakemake-based pipeline called Pipeasm automates key steps of genome assembly, from raw read trimming through scaffolding and contamination screening, and the authors report up to 99.6% BUSCO ...

Plants are usually seen as stationary life forms, quietly supporting environments. But plant communities and populations are ...

Ancient DNA reveals that the Goths of eastern Europe, some of whom would ultimately sack the city of Rome, may have been a mix of peoples from three continents ...

In its purest form (with no extra debris), liquid water can exist as a liquid until -40°C if left still (unmoving). In order ...