Antibiotics are one of the greatest triumphs in the history of medical science—but these lifesaving tools have a dark side.

When it comes to storing images, DNA strands could be a sustainable, stable alternative to hard drives. Researchers at EPFL are developing a new image compression standard designed specifically for ...

This means that all of the thorny, complicated questions that arose with DNA sequencing technology have become even more pressing. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2023. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02056-2 ...

Readouts of the full DNA of children with cancer at diagnosis have been implemented as the standard of care in a European ...

Emboldened by the success of next-generation sequencing, scientists are pursuing the holy grail of genomics—the '$1,000 genome'—with single-molecule approaches. Nathan Blow reports.

Kokoris says that after years of optimization, the enzyme Roche researchers are currently working with yields sequencing reads that are 99.35% faithful to the original DNA template sequence.

China offered multiple countries help with covid-19 testing during the pandemic. The payoff for Beijing included access to the DNA of millions of people.