Researchers claim they have developed a process that can detect and identify nearly any infectious agent in a patient with ...

A next-generation metagenomic sequencing test developed at UCSF demonstrates its ability to rapidly and accurately diagnose a ...

Using CRISPR, the popular gene-editing tool, scientists bumped up the fruit’s sugar content by 30 percent without sacrificing ...

To determine the type and severity of a cancer, pathologists typically analyze thin slices of a tumor biopsy under a ...

Sometimes plants are so similar to each other that the methods developed by 18th century scientist Carl Linnaeus for identifying species are not enough. Completely new species of daisies have been ...

Next-generation metagenomic sequencing test developed at UCSF proves its effectiveness in quickly diagnosing almost any kind ...

Gene therapy can effectively treat various diseases, but for some debilitating conditions like muscular dystrophies there is ...

Gene mutations have consequences both good and bad—from resistance to conditions like diabetes to susceptibility to certain ...

The CyBio FeliX, a benchtop instrument for automated liquid handling tasks, was used to automate the HaloPlex Target ...

Researchers have found evidence of living microbes thriving in one of the most inhospitable environments on Earth - the Atacama Desert of Chile.

Sometimes plants are sufficiently similar to one another that the procedures used by 18th-century scientist Carl Linnaeus for distinguishing species are insufficient.

“If you were to just extract RNA and DNA from wastewater to sequence, you would have almost no sequences from human viruses, ...