BabySeq is a clinical trial exploring how to responsibly share genetic risk information found in the DNA of healthy babies.

In a way, sequencing DNA is very simple: There's a molecule, you look at it, and you write down what you find. You'd think it would be easy—and, for any one letter in the sequence, it is. The problem ...

The power of artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced computing has made it possible to design genetic sequences encoding ...

Scientists at the Broad Institute and Mass General Brigham have built a generative AI model that creates short DNA segments ...

As biological data volume continues to grow, sequence-based AI is poised to become the dominant discovery layer across pharma ...

A major technological advance in DNA writing enables researchers to construct and create in the language of biology ...

A new technology elucidated yesterday in the journal Nature has the potential to be a leap forward in DNA synthesis, allowing ...

The complete genome of an ancient Egyptian has been sequenced, revealing genetic links between the Nile and Mesopotamia 5,000 ...

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Welcome back to a new semester of Dissertation Diaries. As a reminder, this is the series where we highlight Ph.D. students ...

The National Academy of Sciences is presenting its 2026 Public Welfare Medal to Francis S. Collins, former director, National Institutes of Health (NIH), for his pioneering research in human genetics ...

A newly published paper in Nature describes the complex process of launching a nine-country collaboration in Africa to ...