More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...

The ability to analyze gene expression at the single-cell level—known as single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq)—has ...

A new study finds rare neural stem cells in the adult human hippocampus, suggesting some brains can generate new neurons into ...

While it is accepted that extracellular vesicles (EVs)-mediated transfer of microRNAs contributes to intercellular communication, the knowledge about molecular mechanisms controlling the selective and ...

New breakthroughs in DNA analysis offer a chance to identify more of the lost from wars and disasters stretching back decades ...

The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the ...

Researchers identified significant differences in gut microbial composition between gestational diabetes and healthy ...

Public health officials continue to identify patients in a Salmonella Montevideo outbreak traced to fresh cucumbers, even though the CDC has declared the ...

Research led by the National Institute of Biological Sciences in Beijing has discovered that switching on a single dormant ...

Ancient DNA has revealed links between the cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the ...

The advent of next-generation sequencing has made possible genome analysis at previously unattainable depth. Roche, Illumina and Life Technologies, among others, have developed well-established ...