Dr. Comfort is a historian of genetics who is completing a biography of James Watson. At first, James Watson terrified me. It ...

In cancer care, every day that passes can cost a life. First Ascent Biomedical is racing against that clock. By testing a patient's live cancer cells outside the body, the company reveals how their ...

Scientists at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have revealed a previously overlooked layer of genetic variation that could help explain why people experience disease differently, and why some ...

Scientists extracted 39,000-year-old RNA from a frozen woolly mammoth, revealing which genes were active when it died.

An ambitious plan to sequence genomes for 1.85 million eukaryotic species on our planet is underway. It's a massive ...

Pictures of DNA often look very tidy—the strands of the double helix neatly wind around each other, making it seem like ...

Researchers at Stockholm University carefully ground up bits of muscle and other tissue from Yuka and nine other woolly ...

A global review of tiny sea animals called foraminifera has identified 57 new living species, including three from NZ waters.

This article introduces the field of bioinformatics and its importance as a cornerstone of biological research, as well as ...

Technology Networks spoke with Dr. Mark Van Oene, chief operating officer at PacBio, about an ambitious population genomics effort – the Korean Pangenome Reference Project.

Just a few Neanderthal DNA tweaks boosted facial gene activity, revealing how ancient genetics still shape human faces today.