In the dim waters off the Japanese coast, scientists have stumbled upon something that shouldn’t exist. Or at least not by the rules we thought biology followed. While sequencing DNA from a tiny ...

Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...

Researchers working on an incurable blood cancer can now use a new lab model that could make testing potential new treatments ...

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

Plant RNA viruses pose a significant threat to global agriculture, affecting a vast array of crop species and leading to ...

Background: Approximately 3-5% of human cancers are cancer of unknown primary (CUP). Treatment of a cancer patient is largely dependent on the tumor origin. Therefore, identification of the tumor ...