A new study shows that long-read sequencing has the potential to improve the rate of diagnosis while reducing the time to diagnosis from years to days -- in a single test and at a much lower cost.

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

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

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 ...

A team of investigators from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Google, and Columbia ...

An international team of researchers has taken an important step toward understanding how gene expression is controlled ...

Long read sequencing revealed more genetic information in cases of 42 patients with rare diseases while cutting time and cost of diagnoses.

UC Santa Cruz researchers showcase how long-read sequencing can diagnose rare genetic diseases in days instead of years.

With 10K genomic data now publicly available, India takes a major leap in genetic research. In today’s 'Knowledge Nugget', ...

Researchers at deCODE genetics have developed a groundbreaking DNA map, revealing the intricate process of genetic recombination during reproduction. This map highlights areas of DNA that undergo ...

July 2025 will mark the 25th anniversary of the UC Santa Cruz Genome Browser, one of the most widely used resources for genomics worldwide. Originally built to allow researchers to explore a single ...

Recent human deaths seen in the US and Cambodia due to H5N1 bird flu are ‘concerning’, and calls for boosting monitoring and ...