Twenty years ago last month, scientists sequenced the first human genome in the landmark Human Genome Project. Among the many things they discovered was that while any two humans have 99.6 percent of ...

The world’s wildlife are facing a barrage of threats caused by climate change, from the loss of suitable habitat to dwindling food supplies. As a result, endangered species across the US are edging ...

Health Care Providers Are Dropping a Common Anesthesia Drug That’s Also a Climate Super Pollutant Ten Million Corals Are in the Path of a Federal Dredging Project in Florida Why New York City Is ...

Uppsala researchers have developed a new method for investigating dynamic processes in large genetic libraries. By using this method to study cell cycle regulation, they help paint a clearer picture ...

Marie Palmer has helped bring closure to families by identifying unknown individuals through genetic genealogy—and now she’s ...

In a recent study published in Nature Biotechnology, researchers developed a whole-genome sequencing (WGS) pipeline based on nanopore technology for the rapid identification of genetic variants. WGS ...

A basic business principle is that no worker is irreplaceable; that also holds true for most proteins, the cellular factory workers of our bodies. If we fire a protein—that is, permanently delete it ...

Scraps of DNA discarded by our neurons' power units are being absorbed into our nuclear genome far more frequently than assumed, potentially putting our brains at greater risk of developing ...