Genetics

Fish fins and single-cell sequencing help scientists glean new insights into tissue regeneration.

Learn how nanopore sequencing improves the monitoring of infectious disease outbreaks.

To improve traceability and enable authentication of synthetic nucleic acid sequences, researchers are embedding digital signatures into DNA.

Forensic anthropologists, microbiologists, and entomologists study donated cadavers to determine how human bodies decompose.

Lipid nanoparticles deliver CRISPR tools directly to lung stem cells, offering new therapeutic avenues for treating genetic diseases.

Sticky spider-web traps are promising non-invasive and cheap tools for terrestrial vertebrate monitoring.

The enzyme that copies and repairs DNA is more dynamic than originally thought.

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won this year’s Physiology or Medicine award for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.

A new database with more than 2,500 food metagenomes gives scientists a glimpse into the microbial diversity of the human diet.

Examining the advantages of saliva samples for genomics and microbiome researchers as a source of total nucleic acids. 

Standardized and scalable in vitro transcription reagents allow researchers to enhance and accelerate cell-free mRNA synthesis.

Citizen scientists help monitor monkey immune cells, providing a foundation for future work on stress, sociality, and aging.

A novel sequencing-based method revealed chromosome-specific telomere lengths, challenging prior models.

Humanity’s microscopic foes may be to blame for the ABO polymorphism.

The 2.4-million-year-old environmental DNA fragments collected from permafrost in northern Greenland unlock insights into an ancient ecosystem.

Enhancing protein diversity and guiding cellular functions, alternative splicing is a key dimension of genetic regulation.

A new study shows that a constellation of genetic changes link the timing of puberty to weight gain and other biological processes.

Python heart muscles ramp up their force to sustain metabolic activity to maintain increased metabolism during feeding.