Investigators searching for clues in the Arizona kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie are turning to genetic genealogy, a forensic technology that has already helped to crack several notorious cold cases in ...

MIT researchers have built an AI language model that learns the internal coding patterns of a yeast species widely used to manufacture protein-based drugs, then rewrites gene sequences to push protein ...

Fast functional testing of genetic variants, from newborn genomes to disease models like zebrafish, is transforming ambiguous DNA findings into confident, real‑time treatment decisions.

It’s paramount to get answers as soon as possible. The DNA work has to be done as quickly as possible because it could take ...

Machado-Joseph disease causes sufferers to struggle with speech and movement as they lose control of their bodies.

Monib Zirvi Ph.D. ’96 M.D. ’00 on Jan. 23 filed a petition asking the high court to review his malpractice claim alleging that Akin Gump, a prominent law firm who represented Cornell in litigation ...

Every living organism has its own genetic "blueprint": the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. This blueprint is known as a genome. When scientists sequence a genome, they identify ...

The researchers deployed a newly developed machine learning system called SIGNET – Statistical Inference on Gene Regulatory ...

“Many antibodies that were not functional when expressed as intrabodies were ultimately found to be converted into functional ones in our study,” commented Kimura. “This confirms that AI allowed us to ...

A 10-year study shows that a multipronged approach using whole exome sequencing can improve diagnostic yield in patients with ...

In December 2025, Brett Baker led a research cruise to collect microbial genomes off the coast of Uruguay. In this photo, Tyler Smith pilots a remotely operated vehicle collecting shallow coastal ...

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 ...