The human genome encodes potentially thousands of tiny proteins that were previously overlooked. The search is on to find out ...

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.

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

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 ...

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

The technology was announced at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco. In this project, the stakeholders aim to use a human reference genome to combine with patient data in order to try ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...