DNA sequencing was revolutionized after scientists discovered a new bacterium in the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park ...

Within a few days of being born, more than 300,000 Australian babies a year have a spot of their blood analyzed to screen for ...

Your body is a collection of cells carrying thousands of genetic mistakes accrued over a lifetime—many harmless, some bad and ...

After 50 years, scientists discover the MAL blood grouping system, solving a genetic mystery and improving transfusion safety ...

The European consortium for Solving the Unsolved Rare Diseases has demonstrated the significance of international ...

Study explains long-standing question of why Huntington’s disease symptoms typically do not appear until midlife even though ...

The cause of rare diseases is increasingly being detected through genome sequencing, which involves reading the entire human DNA by first breaking it into small pieces -- short reads. Scientists found ...

However, high costs and data interpretation difficulties pose challenges to the sector. The global DNA sequencing market is ...

Nearly 10 years later, researchers can sequence a person's entire genome in mere days. The science has progressed further than anyone believed possible and, depending on who you ask, further than ...

The cause of rare diseases is increasingly being detected through genome sequencing, which involves reading the entire human DNA by first breaking it into small pieces-short reads.

Understanding biological relationships is often critical when studying animal populations. Researchers have now developed a transformative approach that identifies stretches of DNA that two ...