France’s trove of DNA profiles has helped solve high-profile crimes and was used to find some of the Louvre suspects, and it is growing. The police can also access other countries’ databases.

It's a problem Chris Richards from the Centre for Population Genomics (CPG) is trying to solve by expanding the genetic databases used by researchers and clinicians across the world. "These databases ...

Researchers at a Harvard Medical School laboratory are uncertain how they will continue supporting a large public genetic database after its primary source of funding expired last month.

The National Center for Wildlife, in cooperation with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), announced new findings from an extensive study assessing biodiversity in the Red Sea ...

In context: Thanks to improvements in DNA sequencing techniques, the number of public repositories containing genetic data is growing at a significant pace. Zurich researchers have been working on a ...

ETH Zurich scientists have created “MetaGraph,” a revolutionary DNA search engine that functions like Google for genetic data. By compressing global genomic datasets by a factor of 300, it allows ...

Yet the accuracy of this technology depends on something deceptively simple: whether we have enough genetic reference ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Rochester Regional Health has launched a free genetic screening program for adults called Genowell. Participants can learn about inherited risks of breast, ovarian, and colon cancers ...

New Cleveland Clinic research reveals that up to 5% of Americans—approximately 17 million people—carry genetic mutations or ...