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As the new pangenome incorporates more diverse genetic sequences, it also adds 119 million base pairs to the previously known 3.2 billion base pairs that make up the human genome.
This undated image made available by the National Human Genome Research Institute shows the output from a DNA sequencer. In research published in the journal Science on Thursday, March 31, 2022 ...
Clinical applications of germline genome editing are now possible and there is an urgent need to examine the potential of this new technology. Many scientific and medical questions about the ...
Viruses are entirely dependent on their hosts to reproduce. They ransack living cells for parts and energy and hijack the ...
Who really won the race to decode the human genome? Inside the cut-throat competition that pushed forward the decoding of the ...
Researchers from the Center for Crop and Food Innovation (CCFI) at Murdoch University have led the generation of a pan-genome ...
A new study identified the largest known genome of any organism in a fern found in Pacific islands. Its cells have more than 50 times the DNA as human cells have.