The global crisis of diminishing biological diversity is challenging our current ability to monitor changes in ecosystems.

It involves taking a sample from the environment and extracting the DNA to document the species that are (or were recently) present. Just like matching barcodes to an item’s price at the supermarket, ...

New research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison reveals that dysfunction in a protein essential to maintaining ...

Leiden researchers, led by Sebastian Pomplun, have developed a new method to screen hundreds of thousands of molecules for ...

Leiden researchers, led by Sebastian Pomplun developed a new method to screen hundreds of thousands of molecules for drug discovery, using mass ...

Standard laboratory tests can fail to detect many disease-causing DNA changes. Now, a novel 3D chromosome mapping method can ...

California has a way of exaggerating things—mountains, deserts, and egos. But its insects? They take excess to another level.

EMBL researchers created SDR-seq, a next-generation tool that decodes both DNA and RNA from the same cell. It finally opens ...

It’s not quite the “Maury Povich Show” or “Paternity Court,” but there is quite a bit of DNA testing going on this weekend in Gulf Shores. Investigators are on the case at the 52nd Annual National ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...