The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...

Often celebrated as a pioneer of genetics alongside Francis Crick, racist and sexist remarks tarnished his reputation in ...

A team of scientists is employing a technique used to detect invasive species to search for troops lost at sea.

Simply put, Illumina tends to have better profitability ratios compared to its peers. For instance, Illumina has a 68.38% ...

Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland and Aalto University have developed a computational framework called ...

With almost all of its citizens’ genes already sequenced in a national database, it’s the test case for an ambitious—and, to ...

Illumina Inc. said the Chinese government has lifted a ban on the company selling its DNA sequencing machines inside the country.

It’s a little after 6:30 on a brisk July morning in a stone hut high in the Italian Alps. A gently hissing wood fire is ...

Metagenomics is the study of all organisms present in a particular environment, such as soil, water, or the human body. A key ...

Near the end of his reign, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led an army of over half a million men in an invasion of Russia ...

In 1812 Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Russia with one of the largest armies in history—the “Grande Armée” of about half a million men. Historical accounts, early DNA studies and remains of body lice ...