A new tool developed at, MetaGraph, allows scientists to search through vast public DNA and RNA databases in seconds — like a ...

However, new research by scientists working at the Institut Pasteur’s Microbial Paleogenomics Unit finds two previously ...

Boston researchers sequenced a full human genome in record time, under four hours. The advance could speed life-saving diagnoses for newborns in intensive care. Boston Children’s Hospital, in ...

MetaGraph compresses vast data archives into a search engine for scientists, opening up new frontiers of biological discovery.

Researchers uncover two previously undetected bacteria in teeth from Napoleon’s soldiers, revealing a possible combination of illness that ravaged his army in 1812.

The goal of gene therapy is to permanently cure hereditary diseases. One of the most promising technologies for this is the ...

DNA recovered from 1,000-year-old dried feces indicates that intestinal infections from pinworm or Shingella may have plagued ...

However, recent microbial analysis conducted on the remains of Grand Army soldiers indicates at least two other pathogens ...

There’s 99.9% similarity across human genomes, with the remaining 0.1% variation being what makes each person unique.1 In ...

They observe how the mobile DNA LINE-1 copies its sequence in human cells, revealing the precise mechanism of the ORF2p gene.