Only a few years ago, Tuesday’s announcement that a glove believed to be connected to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie in Tucson, Arizona, had no match to a DNA database would have been a dead end.

Every living organism has its own genetic "blueprint": the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. This blueprint is known as a genome. When scientists sequence a genome, they identify ...

Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard ...

In A Nutshell Harvard researchers developed BrainIAC, a single AI model that can be adapted to analyze brain scans for ...

Abstract: This article presents a novel knowledge-based genetic algorithm (GA) to generate a collision-free path in complex environments. The proposed algorithm infuses specific domain knowledge into ...

URBANA, Ill. – Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way ...

For as little as $2,500, you can choose your future baby. Should you? Hosted by Ross Douthat Produced by Katherine SullivanAndrea BetanzosSophia Alvarez Boyd and Victoria Chamberlin Mr. Douthat is an ...

In a giant feat of genetic engineering, scientists have created bacteria that make proteins in a radically different way than all natural species do. By Carl Zimmer At the heart of all life is a code.

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Research suggests that using cannabis may alter a person's epigenetic code. The research suggested that marijuana use can impact the genetic code responsible for activating and ...

Barbara Rae-Venter, a 76-year-old patent attorney living in Marina, California, thought she'd spend her retirement leisurely playing tennis, traveling, and indulging in her favorite pastime: ...