Many insects rely on heritable bacterial endosymbionts for essential nutrients that they cannot get through their diet. A new study, published in Nature Communications, indicates that the genomes of ...

The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) can cause certain types of cancer or autoimmune diseases, but how the body controls this common ...

The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) can cause certain types of cancer or autoimmune diseases, but how the body controls this common viral infection is largely unknown. Researchers at the University Hospital ...

Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard ...

In June, 2025, the Wellcome Trust announced an ambitious £10 million UK project called the Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG) and claimed it “will unlock a deeper understanding of life, leading to ...

Researchers from New England Biolabs and Yale University have created a system for engineering the first fully synthetic ...

International team uncovers gene mutations that cause rare and aggressive cancer in both cats and humans. Their findings ...

Watchmaker Genomics, an innovator in high-performance solutions for next-generation sequencing (NGS), today announced a non-exclusive license with Caribou Biosciences, Inc., a leading clinical-stage ...

Cambridge Cluster life science game changer Syndex Bio is in Florida this week unveiling its proprietary mcPCR™ ...

In India, rare diseases are not so rare. It is estimated that around 70 million Indians live with one of more than 7,000 rare ...

The penguins were intrigued, perhaps for good reason. Dressed head to toe in sterile personal protective gear, three ...

The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) can cause certain types of cancer or autoimmune diseases, but how the body controls this common viral infection is largely unknown. Researchers at the University Hospital ...