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.

A spider on the Canary Islands lost half its DNA but gained more genetic variety. Scientists say this changes how we ...

By examining genomic variation more closely, scientists can now identify new disease connections with greater speed and accuracy. For centuries, scientists have recognized that certain illnesses can ...

Scientists have long suspected connections between heredity and disease, dating back to Hippocrates, who observed certain ...

A new study of the bizarre naked mole rat shows that the animals have evolved a DNA repair mechanism that could explain their ...

Despite rapid advances in reading the genetic code of living organisms, scientists still face a major challenge today—knowing ...

Physiology or medicine was the third prize area Alfred Nobel mentioned in his will laying out his wishes for the Nobel Prize.

Nobel laureate Har Gobind Khorana's groundbreaking work on the genetic code, deciphering how DNA sequences translate to ...

The ongoing genocide in Gaza is reshaping genetics, with toxins, trauma and stress altering DNA, passing the war’s impact to ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a genetic optimization method for the construction of non-binary quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (NB-QC-LDPC) codes with short block lengths. In our scheme, the ...

It all started with the idea of finding a better way to monitor genes. Plant biologists have traditionally employed various techniques to precisely track how info ...