Accurately predicting complex agronomic traits remains a major bottleneck in crop breeding. This study demonstrates how ...

Large amounts of data ("big data") offer enormous potential for improving the accuracy of genome-wide predictions in plant breeding. Encouraged by successful results with wheat hybrids, researchers at ...

Researchers are trying to understand why some wild species do better than others over time, as the environment changes.

An article published yesterday in leading periodical "Nature" presents a new model that can predict the risk of diabetes 12 ...

A whole-genome sequencing approach shows early promise over current commercial methods for identifying more patients likely ...

When genetic testing reveals a rare DNA mutation, doctors and patients are frequently left in the dark about what it actually means. Now, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ...

Researchers at the Hebrew University have developed an exceptionally accurate method for predicting chronological age from DNA, based on two short genomic regions. Using deep learning networks ...