ETH Zurich scientists have created “MetaGraph,” a revolutionary DNA search engine that functions like Google for genetic data. By compressing global genomic datasets by a factor of 300, it allows ...

Ancient DNA from Napoleon’s soldiers reveals enteric and relapsing fevers - not typhus - as key killers during the army’s ...

Near the end of his reign, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led an army of over half a million men in an invasion of Russia ...

Researchers at UW’s School of Medicine and the Institute for Research in Biomedicine Barcelona may have found an additional ...

DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

As we enter entrepreneurship month this November, we’re celebrating the professors and alumni who are fueling job creation ...

When Napoleon’s once invincible army limped out of Russia in winter 1812, frostbite and hunger were merely half the story.

A newly discovered protein from Earth's toughest animal is inspiring breakthrough therapies for cancer and cardiovascular ...

In a breakthrough that redefines both speed and clinical potential, a new world record for the fastest human whole genome ...

A novel tool could reduce the time it takes to diagnose and classify acute leukemias from days to hours through DNA ...

DNA recovered from 1,000-year-old dried feces indicates that intestinal infections from pinworm or Shingella may have plagued ...