drug development, genetics & genomics

A point-and-click interface alternative to command-line tools that allows researchers to easily create, run, and troubleshoot serial sequence analyses

A petition recently filed with the Supreme Court triggers renewed debate about the role of patents in the diagnostics sector.

Bits of the transcriptome once believed to function as RNA molecules are in fact translated into small proteins.

A biotech company reports that an experimental treatment elongated its CEO’s telomeres. 

There’s more to inheritance than genes.

An upcoming clinical trial aims to correct for a disease of fragile bones in affected babies before they are born.

The treatment restored sight among people with an inherited visual impairment.

Google’s parent company is launching a research-and-development project as a standalone firm.

Female fruit flies challenged with infection during their lifetimes have offspring with greater genetic diversity.

An RNA thought to be noncoding in fact encodes a small protein that regulates calcium uptake in muscle.

The personal genomics firm announces plans to make medicines.

What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes

These mobile genetic elements can wreak havoc on the genome. Researchers are now trying to understand how such activity contributes to the aging process.

A strain of the dysentery-causing bacterium isolated in 1915 tells the story of a young soldier who died of the disease in the early days of World War I.

Researchers are working to automate the arduous task of identifying—and amending—mislabeled sequences in genetic databases.

The Federal Court of Australia rejected an appeal of a ruling that allows companies to patent isolated human genes.

See-through organs and animals; distinguishing white from brown and beige fat cells; chipping away at genetic mosaicism; catching up with the blogger behind Street Anatomy

Tracking chikungunya virus; reconsidering wood decay-based fungal classification; ASC specks spread inflammation; antibiotic tolerance in E. coli; RIKEN review yields corrections

Microfluidic tools and techniques for investigating cells, one by one

For the first time, synthetic DNA base pairs are replicated within living bacteria.