EMBL researchers created SDR-seq, a next-generation tool that decodes both DNA and RNA from the same cell. It finally opens ...

When Napoleon’s once invincible army limped out of Russia in winter 1812, frostbite and hunger were merely half the story.

The Internet has Google. Now biology has MetaGraph. Detailed today in Nature 1, the search engine can quickly sift through the staggering volumes of biological data housed in public repositories.

The federal government has been—and must remain—a critical partner in foundational technological innovation and research ...

California has a way of exaggerating things—mountains, deserts, and egos. But its insects? They take excess to another level.

We are now in the second great wave of the genetic revolution, not defined by reading the human code of life, but by rewriting it.

The enhanced ability to synthesise DNA, RNA and peptides has transformed biotechnology, enabling tremendous advances in ...

Standard laboratory tests can fail to detect many disease-causing DNA changes. Now, a novel 3D chromosome mapping method can ...

At times, aging doesn’t become evident in wrinkles or in gray hair, it occurs deep inside your body, in cells that have ...

Shendure directs the Allen Discovery Center for Cell Lineage at the Allen Institute and the Brotman Baty Institute for ...