In a study published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, scientists from the Department of Medical Biochemistry and ...

In December, an international group of scientists called for an immediate moratorium on inheritable human genome editing until CRISPR's risks have been assessed. "Everything I've learned here says ...

For more basic information about genes, visit the Glossary. A rough draft of the human genome was completed in June 2000. Efforts are underway to complete a final draft of the human genome ...

This week at AAAS, PNNL scientists and colleagues discuss phenomics, exposomics, and the factors that influence DNA ...

At the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing, held in March 2023 at the Francis Crick Institute in London, ...

“I think that the biggest challenge is that what seemed like the best solution when you had one human genome and very little information about it is not the solution that we need today,” Pollard ...

Scientists have pinpointed nearly 300 "hotspots" in the human genome that may increase the risk of bipolar disorder. In the largest study of its kind to date, an international research team conducted ...

The human genome contains remnants of ancient retroviruses ... in increasing susceptibility for neurodegenerative diseases,” explained co-author Timothy Powell, a senior lecturer at King ...

These failures can result in genetic errors that prevent pregnancies from continuing, helping to explain why infertility ... complete recombination map of the human-genome. Credit: deCODE genetics ...

"The human genome contains a myriad of CREs, and mutations in these regions are thought to play a major role in human diseases and evolution," explained Dr. Fumitaka Inoue, one of the co-first ...

18 of the 19 chromosomes of the South American lungfish are each individually larger than the entire human genome with its almost 3 billion bases," says Meyer. Autonomous transposons are ...

In a recently published study in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, scientists from the Department of Medical ...