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

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

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

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

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

Read the paper: Heritable polygenic editing as a potential frontier in genomic medicine The study reveals that polygenic genome editing in human embryos could substantially reduce the likelihood ...

Complete recombination map of the human genome, a major step in geneticsScientists at deCODE genetics/Amgen have constructed ...

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

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 ...

You, my friend, are what scientists call a "holobiont"- an organism made up of human cells and the multiplicity of ...