Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...

The goal: to determine whether portable DNA sequencing could improve national efforts to track drug-resistant E. coli, a key indicator of antibiotic resistance.

DNA sequencing articles from across Nature Portfolio DNA sequencing is any chemical, enzymatic or technological procedure for determining the linear order of nucleotide bases in DNA.

Males imprint their DNA by adding methyl modifications to it in a way that alters the activity of genes in order to promote ...

Genomic data shed light on how populations of sled dogs — and their human handlers — have shifted over past 800 years.

Readouts of the full DNA of children with cancer at diagnosis have been implemented as the standard of care in a European first. By determining a child's type of cancer as precisely as possible ...

When tumors grow, they can shed DNA that is detectable in the blood. Scientists have now shown that some of this so-called cell-free DNA, or circulating tumor DNA can identify tumors up to three years ...

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

Down to their final three outs Thursday night, the Madison Mallards took advantage of that beauty and staged a comeback to beat the Royal Oak Leprechauns, 6-4, in Michigan.