Colossal Biosciences announced on November 4, 2025, that it has acquired Viagen, the company responsible for more commercial ...

A team led by bioengineers at the University of California San Diego has developed a genome-scale reference map that details ...

For researchers on the hunt for the genetic roots of disease, the cost of deep whole-genome sequencing makes it challenging ...

For decades, cancer has been thought of as a purely human disease—rogue cells multiplying out of control, with no room for ...

When I explain my research interests to new acquaintances, I’m often asked questions like “what would you do if you met a ...

More than a decade ago, Willie Levenson had his heart set on swimming in the Willamette River. In his own words, he got carried away. He is the founder, executive director and ringleader of the Human ...

DZNE is investing approximately six million euros to establish a one-of-a-kind global genome database. The digital library, known as “NeuroGenomeHub”, aims to drive research into neurodegenerative ...

Researchers have created a new way to reconstruct the evolutionary history of complex plant genomes by analyzing genetic traces left by transposable elements. The technique revealed that modern ...

Since its molecular structure was deduced in the 1950s, DNA has been hailed by many biologists as the secret of life. They’ve read and studied the information stored in the DNA found in the cells of ...