Genome editing technologies like CRISPR-Cas9 have transformed biology, medicine, and agriculture, but concerns remain about ...

The Synthetic Human Genome Project is working to build synthetic human DNA but who is asking how this science will impact ...

In 2014, Aldo de Pape worked for one of the largest medical journal publishers in the world — helping ... “He uploaded that VCF to the infrastructure saying, ‘This is also for science. Here’s the ...

A new update, led by researchers at the UNC School of Medicine and the Gillings School of Global Public Health, describes ...

Who really won the race to decode the human genome? Inside the cut-throat competition that pushed forward the decoding of the ...

Genomic research holds incredible promise for improving human health, but one major challenge has slowed its progress: ...

Two species of worms have retained remarkably similar patterns in the way they switch their genes on and off despite having ...

The promise of genome editing to help understand human diseases and create new therapies is vast, but technological ...

Research conducted by Filip Kolář of the Faculty of Science, Charles University, and Patrick Meirmans of the University of Amsterdam has revealed that genome duplication (polyploidization)—a process ...

Tech & Science Joint genome-sequencing service established to head off future pandemics. Examining the entire sample genetically to discover any pathogen within it can be the best path forward.

The team described the South American lungfish genome Aug. 14 in the journal Nature. It turns out, these air-breathing fish carry a whopping 91 billion base pairs, or letters, of DNA in their genomes.