With almost all of its citizens’ genes already sequenced in a national database, it’s the test case for an ambitious—and, to ...

Michael Buck, PhD, professor of biochemistry in the Jacobs School, recently received NIH funding to explore how molecular readers of DNA access and activate seemingly hidden genes.

Illumina Inc. said the Chinese government has lifted a ban on the company selling its DNA sequencing machines inside the ...

Researchers set a new world record for the fastest DNA sequencing, completing a whole genome in under four hours—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 ...

Ansa Biotechnologies, the trusted partner for DNA synthesis, today announced the global launch of its 50 kilobase (kb) Clonal DNA product, the longest sequence-perfect synthetic DNA commercially ...

Every cell in the body has the same DNA, but different cell types—such as muscle or brain cells—use different parts of it.

At times, aging doesn’t become evident in wrinkles or in gray hair, it occurs deep inside your body, in cells that have ceased to divide but are still alive. These “zombie cells,” or senescent cells ...

DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...