Scientists have just discovered an entirely new way that DNA can be synthesized. The business of constructing DNA ...

For decades, scientists have been puzzled by large portions of the human genome labeled as “junk” DNA, sequences that seemingly serve no purpose. Yet, recent studies suggest these cryptic sequences ...

Advances in DNA sequencing technology help forensic biologists identify suspects where traditional DNA profiling has failed, ...

Stanford develops protein-to-DNA method enabling high-throughput protein sequencing Technique detects up to 1,000 times more ...

Scientists show DNA polymerases can build long, patterned DNA without a template, opening new paths for synthetic biology and gene design.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Evolution works over millennia. Climate change is moving far faster. That mismatch is killing some of the ...

Artificial intelligence has gotten a bad reputation lately, and often for good reason. But a team of scientists at Google’s DeepMind now claims to have found a revolutionary use case for AI: helping ...

For years, two siblings with the distinctive facial features of Treacher Collins syndrome had no genetic explanation for ...

Clinical genome sequencing now delivers genetic diagnoses for about 1 in 4 suspected rare disease patients, guiding targeted ...

A graphic of a purple and magenta Cas9 protein, which is a somewhat round, but uneven, ball, bound to a yellow and orange ...