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"DELFI", a new approach to cancer diagnostics, has shown promise in a proof-of-concept study. The test is based on machine learning and simultaneously analyzes millions of sequences to inspecting differences in cell-free DNA that are indicative of cancer.

DNA assembled into nanostructures such as tubes and origami-inspired shapes could someday find applications ranging from DNA computers to nanomedicine. Now, researchers have designed DNA nanostructures that can heal themselves in serum.

Researchers have unveiled clues into how breast cancer cells spread around the body. The team identified a genetic ‘switch’ in breast cancer cells that boosts the production of a type of internal scaffolding.

Researchers have designed a new vision for animal genomics research into the next decade. The blueprint they created could help scientists and farmers meet the needs of a growing global population while improving livestock welfare and production.

A genome-wide association study has identified five new genetic risk loci that can pass on risk for harmful alcohol use from parents to children, and confirmed one previously identified risk locus.

Understanding the genetics of lipid species offers information beyond that provided by routine lipid screening, and can help improve risk prediction and treatment. In the first large-scale study, novel lipid-associated genetic variants were identified, some of which were linked with risk for cardiovascular disease, such as heart attacks and strokes.

Scientists have found a link between high LDL cholesterol levels and early-onset Alzheimer's disease.

Scientists describe a new technique to genetically engineer bacteria by making human-made DNA invisible to a bacterium's defences.

The search for a global Streptococcus A vaccine has narrowed after the DNA of more than 2000 samples of the bacteria worldwide have been sequenced.

Scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center took a step toward making gene therapy more practical by simplifying the way gene-editing instructions are delivered to cells.