Studying endangered animal species without disturbing them and disrupting their natural habitat could be highly advantageous, ...

In a single experiment, scientists can decipher the entire genomes of many patient samples, animal models, or cultured cells.

Routine newborn screening (NBS) has transformed early disease detection. However, traditional biochemical tests limit the ...

In a way, sequencing DNA is very simple: There's a molecule, you look at it, and you write down what you find. You'd think it would be easy—and, for any one letter in the sequence, it is. The problem ...

One in every 10 people worldwide is impacted by a rare genetic disease but about 50% of them remain undiagnosed despite rapid increases in genetic technology and testing. Even when a person does have ...

A new DNA sequencing technique that delivers faster and more accurate bacterial infection diagnoses could be implemented nationwide. The method, developed by the Medicines and Healthcare products ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is the world’s leading cause of death from a single infectious agent, affecting more than 10 million people ...

Researchers working with dried fungal specimens stored at Australia’s National Herbarium of Victoria have identified two new ...

A team of researchers has built a new protein sequencing workflow that pairs mirror proteases with deep learning software to read peptide sequences with far greater accuracy than previous methods.

A LAMP-based, visually read assay enables rapid FSHR N680S genotyping from buccal swabs, potentially allowing pre-cycle ...