While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

This month Genome Research publishes a special issue highlighting novel advances in computational biology. In collaboration ...

Twenty-five years ago, the release of the first complete Arabidopsis thaliana genome marked a pivotal turning point in plant ...

Twenty-five years ago today, on July 7, 2000, the world got its very first look at a human genome — the 3 billion letter code that controls how our bodies function. Posted online by a small team at ...

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and open science that the Human Genome Project helped promote. Twenty-five ...

Whole Genome Amplification (WGA) offers vast opportunities in personalized medicine, cancer research, and reproductive health ...

Learn more about what how humans ended up having Neanderthal DNA in their genome and what it means if you have it.

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While modern octopuses have DNA that consistently gets reshuffled, resulting in some chromosomal mixing, the researchers ...

Potatoes are one of the world's most important food crops, yet genetic improvements to increase tuber yield and quality have ...

After more than 50 years of research, scientists still don't know exactly what causes autism. But the data make clear that ...

Researchers have developed a new method for human identification, which could be a powerful new tool for forensic ...