Researchers warn DNA sequencing tools face cyber threats to DNA information; call for better security and stronger collaborations.

Potatoes are a staple food for over 1.3 billion people. But despite their importance for global food security, breeding ...

An INRS research team has identified a new family of enzymes that can make precise cuts in single-stranded DNA. A few years ...

Next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS) — the same technology which is powering the development of tailor-made medicines, cancer diagnostics, infectious disease tracking, and gene research — could become ...

When even one tiny section of a person’s genetic code becomes mutated or modified, cells can begin to act out of ...

Through the use of LRS, a cutting-edge technology that reads extended stretches of DNA in a single pass, enabling more ...

Balto’s genome, the scientists found, possessed certain gene variants that may have helped the dog thrive in the extreme Alaskan environment and endure what is now called the Serum Run.

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of ...

Every organ in our body contains a small number of adult stem cells that are specific to its niche. These cells act like a ...

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...

A research team has decoded the genome of historic potato cultivars and used this resource to develop an efficient method for analysis of hundreds of additional potato genomes.

Me’s debacle should be a major wake-up call, reminding policymakers and all of us of the risks of giving access to our ...