DNA
The database could be more productive, less discriminatory, and more private
New technology reveals DNA in neurons is "mixed and matched," producing thousands of previously unknown gene variations
Weird evolution revealed in now-extinct monkey that inhabited Jamaica until a few hundred years ago
A legal battle over a 10,600-year-old ancient skeleton has ended after advanced DNA sequencing found it was related to a Native American tribe
Study of huge Ancestry.com pedigree set suggests similar life spans between spouses may have inflated previous estimates of life span heritability
Enzyme can target almost half of the genome's "zipcodes" and could enable editing of many more disease-specific mutations
The precision medicine platform is 1,000 times more sensitive than conventional screening methods
Convenient system allows for the purification of genomic DNA from animal tissue in 20 minutes or less
More than a million species of fungi are estimated to live on this planet, but most of that diversity remains unknown
