A gene called high mobility group A1 (HMGA1) may be the key that opens the door to the development of colon cancer, according ...

Scientists developed MEDI, a method to estimate dietary intake from food DNA in human stool, offering a more accurate ...

Scientists at UC Santa Cruz have completed the first end-to-end genome of the iconic Pacific banana slug, a species ...

The A, C, G, T codes of these smaller chunks are written down by a DNA sequencer and then the complete sequence is put together. Other similar projects around the world The first Human Genome Project ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with one stop codon—using a cellular platform that they developed ...

Genome sequencing of 30 elephants in India revealed ... noting increased elephant-human conflict due to habitat destruction and development pressures. Among elephants, the male elephant is more ...

For the new study, the Yale team used advanced techniques to map the genome in three dimensions in order to track how HARs interact with genes in human and chimpanzee neural stem cells. This allowed ...

A NGS analysis framework for WGS data, which automates the entire process of spinning up AWS EC2 spot instances and processing FASTQ to snvVCF in <60m, for dollars a sample and achieving Fscores of ...

"A world in which human wages crash from AI — logically, necessarily — is a world in which productivity growth goes through the roof, and prices for goods and services crash to near zero ...

Discoveries in the past two decades have added new branches to the human family tree, including species such as the hobbit-like Homo floresiensis and the powerfully built Homo naledi. A pinkie ...

“If you think about what we might expect humans to accomplish in an area like biology in 100 years, I think a doubling of the human lifespan is not at all crazy,” he said yesterday (Jan ...