CRISPR is a powerful DNA-editing tool that has underpinned huge advancements in human health care in the last decade. It is a precision tool, but is not perfect, and misplaced DNA edits can compromise ...
New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have acquired dogs from one another. By Emily Anthes In the waning days of the ...
On Monday, a paper announcing that all four DNA bases had been found on an asteroid sparked a lot of headlines. But many of the headlines omitted a key word needed to put the discovery in context: ...
In statements made as part of lawsuits against the Trump administration's handling of immigration enforcement, NPR found several people who said they were arrested while protesting ICE and then had ...
BEVERLY, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--seqWell, a global leader in NGS library construction technology, today announced the launch of MosaiX, a next-generation library prep kit designed to streamline a wide ...
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Only a few years ago, Tuesday’s announcement that a glove believed to be connected to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie in Tucson, Arizona, had no match in a DNA database would have been a dead end.
Although DNA evidence collected in the Nancy Guthrie investigation has yet to yield matches, law enforcement is still bracing for results that could expose cracks in the southern Arizona case ...
BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#NGS--Watchmaker Genomics, an innovator in high-performance solutions for next-generation sequencing (NGS), today announced a non-exclusive license with Caribou ...
For a brief moment, the digital asset treasury (DAT) was Wall Street’s bright, shiny object. But in 2026, the novelty has worn off. The star of the “passive accumulator” has dimmed, and rightly so.
Artificial intelligence has gotten a bad reputation lately, and often for good reason. But a team of scientists at Google’s DeepMind now claims to have found a revolutionary use case for AI: helping ...
In a first, scientists have extracted DNA from a Renaissance-era drawing attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, but they can't be sure that the genetic material belongs to the Italian polymath. When you ...