Not only is the banana slug the endearing mascot for UC Santa Cruz — making the project fitting for campus researchers — but ...

The most complex engineering of human cell lines ever has been achieved by scientists, revealing that our genomes are more ...

New research pinpoints 298 parts of the genome associated with higher risk of bipolar disorder. This could lead to better ...

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has received two large grants renewing funding for the Human Pangenome ...

Scientists at deCODE genetics/Amgen have constructed a complete map of how human DNA is mixed as it is passed down during ...

Scientists at deCODE genetics/Amgen have constructed a complete map of how human DNA is mixed as it is passed down during ...

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

The mouse model in the study is reportedly quite different as it allows scientists to observe the aging process in a whole organism.

The Human Pangenome Refence Sequencing Project seeks to gather genomic sequences from a diverse representation of human participants. Two new grants from the NIH will support project contributions by ...

Visualizing cells after editing specific genes can help scientists learn new details about the function of those genes. But ...

It’s a marvel how the human genome — two meters of DNA — fits into the tiny nucleus of a cell while orchestrating the complex processes that sustain life. A new study from Northwestern Engineering’s ...

Bjarni V. Halldorsson and Kari Stefansson, scientists at deCODE genetics, discuss the paper: Complete recombination map of ...