Extracting and analyzing relevant medical information from large-scale databases such as biobanks poses considerable challenges. To exploit such "big data," attempts have focused on large sampling ...

Plants are fast-tracking their own evolution by "plugging in" genetic code stolen from their neighbors, according to new research that reveals the secret to their own successful genetic engineering.

Investigators in the Nancy Guthrie case have turned to genetic genealogy as they try to make the most of potential DNA ...

DNA science has helped solve criminal cases for decades. But increasingly, investigative genetic genealogy — which was first ...

For the first time, researchers have succeeded in developing an artificial DNA base pair that is based on a different chemical force than natural genetic material. While the common natural DNA ...