Sequencing

The project, called Darwin's Cats, aims to enhance our understanding of feline behavior and genetics.

By analyzing genes encoding B-cell and T-cell receptors, the model could screen for conditions like HIV, type 1 diabetes, and lupus.

On their quest to bring back the extinct woolly mammoth, Colossal Biosciences has developed the woolly mouse

White-throated Sparrows demonstrate that traits we usually associate with sex can be influenced by genes that are not on sex chromosomes

This engineered genome will help experts tailor organisms to fit the needs of their ever-changing environments.

Avian flu is rampant in poultry farms and in wild birds in the U.S. Every mutation brings the virus one step closer to the brink of human-to-human transmission, but predicting whether a virus will cross that threshold remains an uncertain science.

Billed as more than 10 times the scale of previous endeavors, the Truveta Genome Project aims to ensure representation across ancestries, ethnicities, genders and other social drivers of health – and broaden the reach of precision medicine.

A formula devised by MIT physicists can be used to predict what happens when a new species is introduced into an ecosystem — whether it will establish itself in the community or fail to gain a foothold and die out.

We, Neanderthals, and Denisovans all have extra copies of a starch-digesting enzyme.

To avoid unwillingly birthing a baby wasp, flies filched a trick from bacteria

Think Twice before Giving Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing Kits to Friends and Loved Ones

C. auris may become more of a problem as it seems to adapt to warming temps and avert treatments.

Cases of H5N1 bird flu in U.S. dairy and poultry workers have largely been mild. However, a new case in a British Columbia teenager has experts worried.

The identification of a new hominin group called Denisovans was one of the most exciting discoveries in human evolution in the last decade.

The pathogen takes over the brains of its hosts and controls them for its own sinister ends

There's been no person-to-person spread, and the human health risk remains low, but some measures of the bird flu do keep creeping up, according to recent

Developing antiviral therapeutics and vaccines requires close study of the viruses that cause disease. But how can these small germs be isolated from complex biological samples like saliva?

When Steve Carr, senior director of the Proteomics Platform at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, began working in proteomics, the field was able to detect only the most abundant proteins in a given sample. In recent years, increasingly sensitive mass spectrometers have paved the way for enormous progress: scientists are now able to detect and analyze nearly all proteins expressed in a sample, including ones…

The octopus sex chromosome appears to have been maintained over hundreds of millions of years, making it the most ancient of such chromosomes in animals

Mono Lake in the Eastern Sierra Nevada is known for its towering tufa formations, abundant brine shrimp and black clouds of alkali flies uniquely adapted to the salty, arsenic- and cyanide-laced water.