A new genetic study published in the journal Cell is filling in some important details about the earliest inhabitants of Palau, an island nation in the western Pacific Ocean consisting of ...

GENOMICS research initiatives are now uncovering valuable traits in Philippine traditional rice varieties (TRVs) that could help develop climate-resilient and nutritious rice for farmers. The ...

Stephen Paul Gale is on trial for the rape of two Framingham store employees in 1989. The case went unsolved for years, until a renewed push to test the evidence for DNA led investigators to Gale, who ...

Bionano Genomics (NASDAQ: BNGO) participated in the 2026 American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics Annual Meeting (ACMG), held March 14–18 in Baltimore, Maryland. Twelve studies, representing ...

An in-depth analysis reveals that for each identified vertebrate species, there may be two others, nearly identical in appearance but genetically distinct. Scientists have long classified ...

On the flipside, if telomeres are too long, it can also spell trouble because cancer cells require long telomeres to become longer lived, ‘immortal,’” says Mia Levine, associate professor of biology ...

Distinguished Professor Lyn Griffiths is leading a $2.1 million study to better understand genetic links to conditions such ...

A new computational tool infers changes occurring at the ends of the chromosomes housing our DNA. It does so by detecting ...