One in every 10 people worldwide is impacted by a rare genetic disease but about 50% of them remain undiagnosed despite rapid increases in genetic technology and testing.

You, my friend, are what scientists call a "holobiont"- an organism made up of human cells and the multiplicity of ...

One type of co-excluder bacteria, called Faecalibacterium, stood out as particularly important. It produces chemicals called ...

A new study shows that long-read sequencing has the potential to improve the rate of diagnosis while reducing the time to diagnosis from years to days -- in a single test and at a much lower cost.

In recent years, scientists and biohackers have sought out ways to "reset" our epigenetic clocks in order to slow down the aging process. This latest study, published in Nature Aging, however, ...

Call it the science of small, but a trio of University of Florida chemical engineers have developed a lab-on-a-chip process ...

Purification removes contaminants from DNA samples, ensuring the integrity of the genetic material and providing more ...

A multi-institutional team of investigators have developed a catalog of transcription factor binding sites that regulate gene expression across the genome, according to a recent study published in ...

Illumina recently launched the MiSeq i100 and MiSeq i100 Plus Systems, two powerful, compact benchtop sequencers that ...

Professors aren’t just confined to classrooms when it comes to teaching. A Minnesota State teacher has been recording a podcast long before he started teaching, and recently invited students to ...

Biology has yet to tap into the full benefits of computer simulations, but a new AI foundation model developed by a team of scientists including CMU's Eric Xing hopes to change that.