Every living organism has its own genetic "blueprint": the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. This blueprint is known as a genome. When scientists sequence a genome, they identify ...

Animals are disappearing from the planet at an alarming rate. Each day, an estimated 200 species go extinct. Some of the ...

Twenty-five years ago this week, President Bill Clinton stood before a podium in the East Room of the White House, and, in front of an all-star lineup of researchers and dignitaries, made a historic ...

Google DeepMind's VP of Research, Pushmeet Kohli, suggests that AI's next major biological breakthrough could be ...

Meg Staton, left, associate professor of bioinformatics and computational genomics in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, and Scott Schlarbaum, director of the UT Tree Improvement ...

A research team led by the A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR GIS) have developed a method to accurately and efficiently read DNA containing non-standard bases—a task once thought too ...

The sweetpotato feeds millions worldwide, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, where its natural resilience to climate extremes makes it crucial for food security. But this humble root vegetable has ...

Geneticists looking inside the nuclear genome for mutations that contribute to disease have long relied on a principal known as constraint modeling, which allows researchers to assess the degree of ...

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NEW YORK — An Abyssinian cat from Missouri, named Cinnamon, has made scientific history. Researchers have largely decoded her DNA, a step that may aid the search for treatments for both feline and ...

The global single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping market size was valued at USD 7.24 billion in 2025 and is predicted to hit around USD 19.48 billion by 2034, rising at a 11.7% CAGR, a study ...