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

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

Open-access databases such as the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) contain more than 2.4 million bacterial genomes, and this number continues to grow rapidly. Until now, searching these vast ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — After 30 years, Austin city leaders announced the infamous yogurt shop murders had been solved. Austin Police Chief of Police Lisa Davis said, “advances in science and technology” ...

Seafood fraud, which includes deliberate mislabelling and substitution of species, poses a serious risk to consumer safety and threatens the sustainability of marine ecosystems. In response, a ...

Abstract: Genome alignment is a vital process in genome sequencing and bio-informatics research. It entails aligning short DNA sequence fragments (usually tens to hundreds of base pairs) with a ...

An analysis of the bones and teeth of ancient mammoths (Mammuthus) has identified some of the microorganisms that lived in the animals’ mouths and bodies more than one million years ago. The study, ...

New research from the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery is tackling a complex packing problem. Thanks to the development of a powerful new computational tool introduced in a study published earlier ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Some of the most harmful genetic changes in cancer are also the hardest to see. These structural alterations, deep within a tumor's DNA, can fuel aggressive growth and evade ...

Scientists from the Smithsonian have successfully used swift fox droppings to identify individual animals and collect other data vital to monitoring a reintroduced population in Montana. Ellie ...

Katie Palmer covers telehealth, clinical artificial intelligence, and the health data economy — with an emphasis on the impacts of digital health care for patients, providers, and businesses. You can ...