The vampire squid is a creature straight out of a gothic horror film. It lurks in the deep-sea abyss, cloaked in dark, webbed ...

Deep beneath the ocean’s surface, where sunlight never reaches, a creature older than dinosaurs has quietly preserved secrets ...

The biggest new healthcare product unveiled at CES this week was undoubtedly Life Technologies Corp.’s (NASDAQ:LIFE) new Ion Proton Sequencer, a bench-top machine that the company says will be able to ...

The Genome 10K Community of Scientists and BGI (formerly the Beijing Genomics Institute) of Shenzhen, China, have announced a plan to sequence the genomes of 101 vertebrate species within the next two ...

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A team from the Andalusian Center for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine (CABIMER) has developed an innovative ...

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are part of a team that has generated the first complete DNA sequence of a plant. The team sequenced the genome of Arabidopsis ...

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and open science that the Human Genome Project helped promote. Twenty-five ...

Whole-genome sequencing reads every DNA base. This shifts medicine from diagnosing disease based on symptoms to molecular ...

Twenty-five years ago today, on July 7, 2000, the world got its very first look at a human genome — the 3 billion letter code that controls how our bodies function. Posted online by a small team at ...