For years, researchers have been using nanopores — tiny holes just wide enough for a single DNA strand to slip through — to read DNA sequences quickly and inexpensively. These systems work by ...

The puzzle seems impossible: take a three-billion-letter code and predict what happens if you swap a single letter. The code we’re talking about—the human genome—stores most of its instructions in ...

Emerging methods are improving the ability to identify even highly degraded human remains. By Damien Cave Reporting from Hanoi, Vietnam The world is facing an abundance of tragic events that produce ...