The work by a team at UCD’s Conway Institute will cast light on how susceptible we are to certain diseases BACKGROUND:THE DECODING of the first Irish genome represents a significant advance in the ...

DNA replication is happening continuously throughout the body, as many as trillions of times per day. Whenever a cell divides—whether to repair damaged tissue, replace old cells, or simply to help the ...

Before, it used to take ages to gain understanding of a person’s genetic makeup, but thanks to breakthroughs in high-performance computing, what once required days of waiting for results can now be ...

A Connecticut firm, 454 Life Sciences, says it can sequence a complete human genome in a month. BioNanomatrix, operating out of labs and offices in Philadelphia and using labs at Princeton, recently ...

Australian scientists now have access to revolutionary tools which could give them a cutting edge in the fight against diseases like cancer. New technology can help scientists decode the DNA of things ...

NEW YORK — An Abyssinian cat from Missouri, named Cinnamon, has made scientific history. Researchers have largely decoded her DNA, a step that may aid the search for treatments for both feline and ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The first virus hunter in space is all set to conduct some cosmic, new DNA research. Newly arrived space station astronaut and Napa native, Kate Rubins will attempt to complete ...