EMBL researchers created SDR-seq, a next-generation tool that decodes both DNA and RNA from the same cell. It finally opens ...

Scientists have long thought of DNA as an instruction manual written in the four- chemical bases—A, C, T, and G—that make up the genetic code. The prevailing belief was that by decoding these ...

In a breakthrough that redefines both speed and clinical potential, a new world record for the fastest human whole genome ...

Jian Carrot-Zhang is in the Computational Oncology Program, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, New York 10065, USA, and in the ...

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

Rare hereditary diseases can be identified in patients and specific mutations in tumour cells detected – DNA sequencing revolutionised biomedical research decades ago. In recent years, new sequencing ...

New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been a critical turning point for life on Earth. For evolutionary biologists, what most distinguishes the ...

For decades, scientists believed the essence of life was written solely in four chemical bases: A, C, T, and G. Together, ...

A new medication for treatment-resistant depression may help a subset of people who carry a specific genetic marker.

In a major advance for biotechnology and bioinformatics, researchers from ETH Zurich have developed MetaGraph, a search engine that enables scientists to rapidly query massive public DNA and RNA ...

I went into cancer care and cancer research because, when I was a fellow, it was the medical specialty with the largest ...