For decades, scientists have known that platypuses and echidnas – Australia's unique egg-laying mammals – have another developmental quirk: they don't use the same genetic toolkit as other mammals to ...

The California-based nonprofit founded by the former 23andMe CEO is set to close the $305 million deal in coming weeks.

Two new crayfish species have been discovered and named, but face immediate threats from invasive species and human impact.

Somewhere deep inside a salt cave in Hallstatt, Austria, a small crystal disk stores the entire human genome, and possibly ...

An uninvited guest in a California seawater tank has turned into a milestone for evolutionary biology. Researchers sequencing ...

Not all DNA looks like the familiar twisted ladder. Sometimes, parts of our genetic code fold into unusual shapes. One such ...

GEN invited Collins and Venter to offer their reflections on 25 years of genome science (pages 24 and 28, respectively). And ...

A legal scholar with a doctorate in wildlife genetics explains the promise biotechnology techniques hold for some animals ...

When our ancestors first gathered in the world's earliest cities 10,000 years ago, they weren't alone. Tiny, blood-sucking ...

Anne Wojcicki's nonprofit will acquire substantially all of 23andMe's assets for $305 million, the company announced Friday.

City of Hope co-led the first study to demonstrate that characterizing genetic material near chromosomes forecasts how ...

A new system from DNA Protocol, called the Genomic Hash Mesh, now secures human DNA as a verifiable, on-chain identity anchor ...