Peanuts are an important staple crop for many people around the world. As well as being delicious as smooth or crunchy peanut ...

A comprehensive analysis of 173,303 genomes from Pakistan, published today in Nature, is upending how scientists understand ...

It’s easy to see why horizontal gene transfer would be common among microbes. They often live in complex communities that are ...

New findings, published in Nature, help answer the riddle of how vertebrates evolved the diverse array of brain cells that ...

Scientists have uploaded a viral genome to a quantum computer, marking an important step for the future of quantum-enabled ...

Genes aren't just transferred from parents to their offspring. Nature has found other ways to pass on genetic information, even between different species. And a new study, published in the journal ...

To many, the genome is a puzzle—a many-sided puzzle whose meaning stretches across your life, your children's, and your family's. To many, the genome is a puzzle—a many-sided puzzle whose meaning ...

Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely.

A genomic study of Greenland sharks, thought to be the longest-lived vertebrates on the planet, is hinting at the secrets to their epic lifespan and cancer resistance.

An initial genome-wide analysis sheds light on Faroese ancestry and recent selection, and lays a foundation for understanding the genetics behind health and disease within this population.

Bionano Genomics, Inc. (Nasdaq: BNGO) today announced that studies featuring optical genome mapping (OGM) at the 2026 European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) conference grew substantially compared ...

New research tracks how cells prepare gene regulatory decisions that will define their fate during the earliest stages of ...