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

Natera NTRA announced the commercial launch of Zenith genomics, a next-generation whole genome sequencing assay designed to ...

NIH funding has allowed scientists to see the DNA blueprints of human life—completely. In 2022, the Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium, a group of NIH-funded scientists from research institutions around ...

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

The Evo2 genomic language model can generate short genome sequences, but scientists say further advances are needed to write ...

Researchers use long-read genome sequencing to discover 33% more structural variants and 38% more tandem repeats linked to autism spectrum disorder.

Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. Complex regions of the human genome remained uncharted, even after researchers sequenced the genome ...

Foundation Medicine, Inc., a global precision medicine company, today announced the launch of its Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) Germline test for research use. This important portfolio expansion is ...

Genome editing-based therapies typically aim to treat disease by correcting underlying genetic mutations in patient's cells.

Element Biosciences is going toe-to-toe with gene-sequencing giant Illumina, unveiling a device that can read DNA for half the price of the industry leader’s technology. On Thursday, Element ...