Researchers working with dried fungal specimens stored at Australia’s National Herbarium of Victoria have identified two new species of fungi by applying DNA sequencing to long-held collections. The ...

Scientists have uncovered an enormous hidden archive of plant DNA that has endured for more than 400 million years. By comparing hundreds of plant genomes, researchers identified more than 2.3 million ...

DNA from samples spanning 8,500–1,300 years ago shows how ancient Europeans adapted to the development of early agriculture. Genes underwent significant changes in 14 regions of the genome. For ...

The startup is developing AI foundation models trained on DNA rather than text or code, applying deep learning techniques to ...