A major new effort at Weill Cornell Medicine seeks to catalog the normal human virome, the immense ecosystem of viruses that lives in and on us.

Find out how genome sequencing has emerged and what the future holds for one of biotech's most important tools.

Slavé Petrovski, vice president of AstraZeneca’s Centre for Genomics Research, celebrates DNA Day by delving into the world ...

Certain DNA sequences can form structures other than the canonical double helix. These alternative DNA conformations—referred ...

Ingrida Domarkienė, a geneticist at Vilnius University in Lithuania, discusses the exciting developments made possible by ...

Plant breeding plays a vital role in ensuring global food security by increasing crop yields, improving nutritional quality ...

S cientists might have succeeded in sequencing the entire human genome, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t still learning new ...

A team of researchers has used advanced DNA sequencing to develop the most comprehensive atlas yet of genetic change through ...

A genomic study of gut microbes during antibiotic use finds selective sweeps in a DNA gyrase gene that drive resistance.