NEW YORK – Scientists have decoded the DNA of a celebrated “living fossil” fish, gaining new insights into how today’s mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds evolved from a fish ancestor. The African ...

A new sequencing technique has enabled researchers to decipher 1 percent of the genetic blueprint of the long-extinct wooly mammoth, the largest fragment of DNA ever decoded from a fossilized species ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. A Stanford University engineer has invented a new technology for decoding DNA and used it to decode his own genome for less than ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chances are you’ve heard of mapping genes to diagnose rare diseases, predict your risk of cancer and tell your ancestry. But to uncover food poisonings? The nation’s disease ...

A research team led by the A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR GIS) have developed a method to accurately and efficiently read DNA containing non-standard bases — a task once thought too ...