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

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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 ...

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

A study has traced thousands of conserved regulatory elements back 300 million years, revealing deep principles of plant genome evolution—a discovery that could pave the way for more precise ...

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 ...

PacBio (NASDAQ: PACB), a leading provider of high-quality, long-read sequencing technologies, today announced that Basecamp Research, a frontier AI lab for therapeutic design, has selected PacBio HiFi ...

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have identified new genetic variants associated with autism spectrum ...

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 ...