The initiative, called the HerediGene: Population Study, represents the largest and most comprehensive DNA mapping effort to date in the United States from a single population. For the study, which is ...

A version of this article originally appeared on Alda Sigmundsdóttir’s personal blog. Recently, I received mail from the company Decode Genetics, kindly requesting that I give a sample of my DNA. I ...

LOS ANGELES — Researchers have found a way to collect and decode the complete DNA sequence of a fetus by piecing it together using a sample of its mother’s blood. The discovery, reported online ...

The scientists at deCODE Genetics, a subsidiary of Amgen, sought to deepen the understanding of cis-acting influences of sequence variants on CpG methylation. In the study, the scientists were able to ...

Intermountain partners with deCODE to launch largest single-population DNA mapping effort in U.S. Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare has partnered with deCODE genetics, an Icelandic ...

A research team led by the A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR GIS) have developed a method to accurately and efficiently read DNA containing non-standard bases — a task once thought too ...

NEW YORK – Scientists have decoded the DNA of a celebrated “living fossil” fish, gaining new insights into how today’s mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds evolved from a fish ancestor. The African ...

DNA is compressed in the nucleus in a disorderly way that allows flexibility in how genes are turned on and off, according to a study by scientists from the Salk Institute and University of California ...

Newly arrived space station astronaut Kate Rubins wore top-level biosafety suits for her work on Earth, but that won't be needed when she fires up a pocket-sized device to decode DNA in space. Rubins, ...

Using 20 balls of hair snipped from woolly mammoth bodies found frozen in the Siberian permafrost, scientists have obtained a letter by letter code of about four-fifths of the animals’ DNA, marking ...

The research team of Professor Toshihiko Eki of the Department of Applied Chemistry and Life Science (and Research Center for Agrotechnology and Biotechnology), Toyohashi University of Technology used ...