Mushrooms that appear identical turn out to be different species, correcting decades of errors in biodiversity records.

Ancient DNA is turning human evolution into a crime scene reconstruction, and one of the prime suspects is a herpesvirus that ...

A 14,400-year-old wolf puppy’s last meal is shedding light on the last days of one of the Ice Age’s most iconic megafauna ...

The new technique is called CLASSIC, an acronym for “combining long and short range sequencing to investigate genetic ...

Some Y-chromosome DNA sequences from the “Holy Child” artwork and from a letter penned by one of Leonardo’s cousins appear to ...

This postdoc uses genome sequencing to uncover genes that shaped plant domestication and can be used to guide the development ...

While tools like CRISPR have blown the field of genome hacking wide open, being able to predict what will happen when you tinker with the code underlying the living things on our planet is still ...

Saliva is an easily accessible source of high molecular weight DNA for Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing applications.

Imagine you work for a hypothetical gene synthesis company, one of dozens around the world that manufacture tiny strands of custom nucleic acids like DNA for customers in academia and industry. DNA ...

A whole-genome sequencing approach shows early promise over current commercial methods for identifying more patients likely ...