Did you know there's a quest to find Leonardo da Vinci's DNA? With no direct descendants, scholars have taken to sampling the famous artist's paintings, letters and even distant cousins. And after ...

A new wave of apps is attempting to create a hotline to heaven for users who are interested in strengthening their religious faith. The app Text With Jesus uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to ...

ETH Zurich scientists have created “MetaGraph,” a revolutionary DNA search engine that functions like Google for genetic data. By compressing global genomic datasets by a factor of 300, it allows ...

Its founders call it a Google search or ChatGPT for DNA. In essence, users can ask their genetics direct questions. But instead of receiving broad, sometimes unnecessarily disconcerting information ...

In context: Thanks to improvements in DNA sequencing techniques, the number of public repositories containing genetic data is growing at a significant pace. Zurich researchers have been working on a ...

The Internet has Google. Now biology has MetaGraph. Detailed today in Nature, the search engine can quickly sift through the staggering volumes of biological data housed in public repositories. “It’s ...

Lonnisha Landry's 16-year-old son, Xavier, was gunned down in Auburn on Jul. 12, 2024. (Photos vis OnSceneTV; Lonnisha Landry) AUBURN, Wash. — After more than a year without answers, the mother of a ...

Rare hereditary diseases can be identified in patients and specific mutations in tumour cells detected – DNA sequencing revolutionised biomedical research decades ago. In recent years, new sequencing ...

The killing of Nancy Radbil 46 years ago remains unsolved. Recent DNA testing conducted on the remains of Lee Thomas Kemmer showed Kemmer's DNA was not a match for the person who killed Radbil, ...