Tell us about your book Obtuse Angle, which is a mix of cartoons and your writings. What is the story behind this name? As human beings ... But the plan was never to be a cartoonist.

When the Bloomorda machine goes haywire, CatNap, Hoppy Hopscotch and Bubba Bubbaphant are all teleported into Zoonomaly. Once in the new world, they start transforming into zoo animals, and have to ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism ...

The Human Genome Project, launched in 1990 and concluded in 2003, enabled the documentation and analysis of the building blocks of human DNA, revealing patterns that could indicate the likelihood ...

UC Santa Cruz genomics experts gained new insights into the campus's endearingly eccentric mascot — and overcame the unique ...

It continues 25 years of research at deCODE genetics into how new diversity is generated in the human genome, and its relationship to health and disease. The new map, appearing today in the online ...

Structural variants in the human genome include cytogenetically detectable and submicroscopic deletions, duplications, large-scale copy-number variants, inversions and translocations. The ability ...

Key findings highlight the role of horizontal gene transfer, the incorporation of foreign bacterial genetic material into the beetle genome, which is thought to be the result of earlier symbioses.

Already, at least one biotech startup, Matter Bio in New York City, has raised funds with the aim of repairing the human genome. (Whether such a plan would ever be feasible across broad swaths of ...

What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.