A new tool developed at, MetaGraph, allows scientists to search through vast public DNA and RNA databases in seconds — like a ...

Researchers at a Harvard Medical School laboratory are uncertain how they will continue supporting a large public genetic database after its primary source of funding expired last month.

MetaGraph compresses vast data archives into a search engine for scientists, opening up new frontiers of biological discovery ...

Scientists analyzed data from more than one million users of 23andMe and found associations between certain genes and stuttering ...

Scholars have debated precisely what kinds of diseases ravaged Napoleon’s troops. New DNA analysis of some soldiers’ remains ...

Investigators using technology that lets them analyze DNA quickly without a lab have positively identified the remains of 14 ...

As a string of criminal cases reliant on suspect statements led to wrongful convictions that have been overturned in retrials, the importance of scientific investigations based on objective evidence, ...