A spider on the Canary Islands lost half its DNA but gained more genetic variety. Scientists say this changes how we ...

When red devil spiders ventured down the Atlantic and arrived on the Canary Islands, their genome dramatically shrank and ...

Of all the myriad weird and wonderful species that populate this planet, it’s probably not the humble sweet potato that you’d pick as being the most mysterious. It may surprise you, therefore, to ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

Boston researchers sequenced a full human genome in record time, under four hours. The advance could speed life-saving diagnoses for newborns in intensive care. Boston Children’s Hospital, in ...

This is a human-written story voiced by AI. Got feedback? Take our survey. (See our AI policy here.) Artificial intelligence can dash off more than routine emails. It has now written tiny working ...

Adding genomic sequencing to the standard newborn screening heel-prick test is changing how we diagnose kids with genetic diseases.

Boston Children's Hospital, along with Broad Clinical Labs and Roche Sequencing Solutions, has demonstrated that rapid genomic sequencing and interpretation are achievable in a matter of hours.

Boston Children's Hospital, along with Broad Clinical Labs and Roche Sequencing Solutions, has demonstrated that rapid genomic sequencing and interpretation are achievable in a matter of hours. This ...

FRIDAY, Oct. 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A new Guinness World Record for fastest whole human genome sequencing has been ...