Researchers have spent decades—and billions of dollars—sequencing animal and crop genomes, but fungi have historically been ...

Closing the rare disease diagnostic gap can improve patient care and outcomes. Did you know that one in 10 Americans have a ...

Deep within tropical forests, sloths move at a pace that seems almost frozen in time. Their slow movements, low energy use, ...

In the last several years, large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Bard have shown the world the astounding power of generative AI for language creation tools. However, some of the most exciting ...

To many, the genome is a puzzle—a many-sided puzzle whose meaning stretches across your life, your children's, and your family's. To many, the genome is a puzzle—a many-sided puzzle whose meaning ...

In a study published in Science Translational Medicine, a team of researchers led by Dr. Wang Yu from the Shenzhen Institutes ...

The US Endangered Species Act compels the government to identify species at risk of extinction and devise plans to restore ...

The promise of genome editing to help understand human diseases and create new therapies is vast, but technological limitations have limited advancement of the field. While existing editing ...

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 ...

Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. Complex regions of the human genome remained uncharted, even after researchers sequenced the genome ...