It’s a bit like giving the soil a DNA test.” A new droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) method quantifies root DNA directly from soil ...

Mary-Dell Chilton, Ph.D., an American pioneer in plant sciences known as the “Queen of the Agrobacterium,” died on June 24, ...

Scientists at The Wistar Institute have shown that a single injection of a small, circular piece of genetic instruction can ...

Amid the peatlands of northern Sweden, billions of microbes are quietly rewriting their genetic playbooks—and doing so far more often than scientists realized.

A handful of start-up firms are testing therapies that target specific epigenetic markers to treat everything from high ...

At Baylor Genetics, we believe the biggest leap forward for rare disease diagnosis will happen when WGS becomes the standard ...

The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has developed new portable field devices that will allow soldiers to identify unknown ...

Studies of genetics conducted in yeast cells, human neurons, mice or other model systems often reveal networks of genes that ...

I knew I had to try to find him. Two weeks (and two vials of spit) later, I got my results—and I already had a lead.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nucleus Genomics, a next-generation consumer genetic testing and analysis company, has raised $14 million in a new funding round led by Alexis Ohanian's Seven Seven Six. The ...

A leading genetic genealogist is predicting it could take months for testing results on a hair sample sent from a private lab in Florida to the FBI in the stalled search for answers surrounding the ...