New analytical methods developed at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions have increased our ...

Metagenomics relies on the use of software programs called assemblers, which can reconstruct tens of thousands of individual ...

Advances in DNA sequencing technology help forensic biologists identify suspects where traditional DNA profiling has failed, ...

For years, two siblings with the distinctive facial features of Treacher Collins syndrome had no genetic explanation for ...

Cyanobacteria—ancient microbes that oxygenated Earth and made complex life possible—are still revealing surprises billions of ...

A team at Rice University has built a lab platform that can map the activity of more than 10 million protein variants in a ...