Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with one stop codon—using a cellular platform that they developed ...

In a recent study, Mass General Brigham researchers demonstrated that through low-cost genetic samples that can be obtained from a cheek swab or blood test, they can improve identification of people ...

By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...

The last time Ecuador held elections, in 2023, the country’s national assembly had been dissolved and then-President ...

Stanford researchers introduced affordable gene-editing kits ready for the classroom, aiming to make the field more accessible for high school students.

In general, rearrangements of heterochromatic ... of structural variation to the overall heterogeneity of the human genome is considerable. Initial studies, which have scanned only a portion ...

The technology was announced at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco. In this project, the stakeholders aim to use a human reference genome to combine with patient data in order to try ...

FDA Restructures its Food Resources Although there were a number of significant new regulations, the most significant food ...

The immense variation in the amount of DNA contained in the cells of organisms has long fascinated scientists. Known as the genome size (GS), or C-value of a species, the amount of DNA in one entire ...

In a Phase I/II trial, patients with X-linked chronic granulomatous disease will receive a treatment created using a new ...

The pain from endometriosis, which affects an estimated one in 10 Americans born female, can be terrible. Some people are unable to work or go to school. Yet many physicians don’t recognize the ...

Genome India, an ambitious national initiative supported by the Indian government’s Department of Biotechnology, was begun in January 2020. — The Department of Biotechnology recently unveiled a new ...