Using the largest linguistic database ever created – Google Books – culturomics experts track things like “lexical dark matter,” and how long fame really lasts.

Despite the difficult extraction process, the banana slug DNA was able to be run smoothly through the algorithms that turn raw sequencing data into a fully readable reference genome. The banana slug ...

The study offers great new insights into the rich tapestry of archaic and modern human genome history. They would meet yet again around 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, continuing the braided stream of ...

The genome is often compared to a kind of book, written in the alphabet of DNA rather than English. The DNA alphabet only has four letters: A, C, G and T.

To piece together this history, Undark examined more than 100 emails, letters, and other documents, and interviewed many of the Human Genome Project's central figures.

IÕm probably the right person to review this book. IÕve had the experience of a complete "western" medical education and residency and twenty years of caring for patients. I also live in a part ...

Human genome pioneer J. Craig Venter’s tales of his seafaring adventures are thrilling. His new book about them is less so “The Voyage of Sorcerer II: The Expedition that Unlocked the Secrets ...

The Human Genome Project was a massive undertaking that took more than a decade and billions of dollars to complete. For it, scientists collected DNA samples from anonymous volunteers who were ...

Big things can sometimes come in small packages. A small fern has broken the record for the largest genome yet known, researchers report May 31 in iScience.The plant’s full set of genetic ...

Whole-genome duplications are rare evolutionary events in which all the chromosomes and genes of a species are doubled. This supplies new genetic material to the gene pool and can provide an ...