Sequencing bacterial genomes allows scientists to study bacterial diversity, immunity, and the human microbiome, but it ...

Scientists have successfully sequenced the genomes of seven people who lived in Europe between 42,000 and 49,000 years ago, revealing that they belonged to the earliest known group of humans to ...

Scientists have sequenced the genomes of five individuals from indigenous populations in southern Africa, including famed South African Bishop Desmond Tutu, revealing new genetic variation among ...

A study on bat genomes, involving Texas Tech University, discovered genetic adaptations that help bats resist viral ...

Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from early modern humans, who first arrived in Europe when the region was already inhabited by Neanderthals. An international team has now ...

An analysis of the genomes of nearly 6,000 Greenlandic people suggests that their Inuit ancestors rarely moved around after ...

The Catalan Initiative for the Earth BioGenome Project (CBP) is also participating in this international project, which will sequence the genomes of the eukaryotic species—that is, those with ...

Originally built to allow researchers to explore a single human DNA sequence assembled by the Human Genome Project Consortium (HGPC), it is now accessed by tens of thousands of researchers a day to ...

The most complex engineering of human cell lines ever has been achieved by scientists, revealing that our genomes are more resilient to significant structural changes than was previously thought.

Researchers have been working to sequence the genomes of the world’s birds—approximately 10,000 species in all. They recently achieved a new milestone when they added 267 genomes to the nearly 100 ...

Ritvik Gupta, a junior at Johnson High School, has been named a National STEM champion, one of only two students from Iowa to ...