Industrial yeasts are a powerhouse of protein production, used to manufacture vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, and other useful compounds.

Coffee wilt disease has continually devastated farms around the world. Understanding the fungus’s genetics can help protect ...

Every living organism has its own genetic "blueprint": the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. This blueprint is known as a genome. When scientists sequence a genome, they identify ...

For more than a century, scientists and conservationists have tried to bring back the American chestnut, a tree once so ...

A research team led by UAB researcher David Reverter has discovered the molecular mechanism that describes in detail the ...

Scientists are moving toward a genetic test that could help thousands of mothers with epilepsy safely take life-saving ...

A new study suggests that an AI-assisted blood test, which measures for biomarkers, could help to identify prediabetes risk earlier.

Despite decades of chasing leads, investigators had been unable to identify the victim of a 1992 homicide on the North Side.

Rutgers Develops New Tool for Examining Cancer Genomic Data that Could Improve Treatment When scientists sequence tumor DNA, ...

In a way, sequencing DNA is very simple: There's a molecule, you look at it, and you write down what you find. You'd think it would be easy—and, for any one letter in the sequence, it is. The problem ...

DNA sequencing technologies play a key role in modern soil microbiome research, providing a deep understanding of its structure and functional role in ecosystems. 16S rRNA gene, region of 18S-ITS-28S ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their epigenetics-meticulously placed chemical tags that influence which genes are expressed in ...