You probably remember bits and pieces from your high school biology class. Deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, makes up the building blocks of life — including you. In tandem with the influence of your ...

Scientists at Google DeepMind —the company’s artificial intelligence research arm—say they’ve created an A.I. tool that can ...

The history of genomics has long been a story of reading a book where only every fiftieth page made sense. While the Human ...

DeepMind’s AlphaGenome AI model could help solve the problem of predicting how variations in noncoding DNA shape gene ...

In conjunction with the strategic evolution, the Company appointed Jian Irish, Ph.D., M.B.A., as Chief Executive Officer. Based on a revised capital allocation strategy, the Company extended its ...

From a lab bench in Chicago to a global consortium effort, scientists have drawn the most detailed four-dimensional maps yet of the human genome, tracking how chromosomes fold, loop and shift around ...

One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published in Nature. Chromosomes are thread-like structures that carry a cell's ...

An illustration of multicolored tangle of threads within a small black sphere. A 3D illustration shows DNA packaged into the nucleus, scientists with the 4D Nucleome project are now building accurate ...

In a breakthrough that redefines both speed and clinical potential, a new world record for the fastest human whole genome sequencing has been set. Think of all the things that can be done in four ...

The world of pregnancy is going to radically change, predicts Noor Siddiqui. “I think that the default way people are going to choose to have kids is via IVF and embryo screening,” she said at the ...

The non-coding genome, once dismissed as "junk DNA", is now recognized as a fundamental regulator of gene expression and a key player in understanding complex diseases. Following the landmark ...

In 1996, Leslie Gordon, a biologist and a pediatrics resident at a hospital in Rhode Island, gave birth to a son, Sam. For a few months, Sam seemed healthy. But Gordon and her husband, a pediatric ...