Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human ...

MetaGraph compresses vast data archives into a search engine for scientists, opening up new frontiers of biological discovery ...

Researchers have sequenced the South American lungfish genome, uncovering a DNA content nearly 30 times larger than the human ...

The federal government has been—and must remain—a critical partner in foundational technological innovation and research ...

Alternative splicing exhibits lineage-specific variability, with mammals and birds reaching the highest levels despite conserved intron-rich architectures, while unicellular eukaryotes and prokaryotes ...

Mikhail Karasikov and his colleagues at ETH Zurich worked on MetaGraph, a search engine designed for genomic databases containing massive troves of DNA and RNA sequences.

The Broad Institute gene-sequencing lab used Roche equipment to read infants’ DNA genomes in less than four hours, cutting an ...

Maya Ajmera, President & CEO of the Society for Science and Executive Publisher of Science News, spoke with David R. Liu, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of ...

Proposals would cut overall admissions, shift referrals away from the UN, and steer slots to English speakers and select ...

This year, Washington iGEM elected to design an anti-virulence therapy against Exotoxin A, a toxin secreted by Pseudomonas ...

Researchers have created human embryos by taking nuclei from ordinary skin cells, placing them into donated eggs, and ...

In a major advance for biotechnology and bioinformatics, researchers from ETH Zurich have developed MetaGraph, a search ...