Researchers analyzed ancient and modern genetic samples of the Greenlandic Qimmit breed to shed light on the long ...

As predicted the era of universal newborn genomic screening is dawning. The UK and Florida are leading the way.

A Ph.D. graduate student in biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz, with a background in computer science and mathematics, ...

This AI system can analyze up to one million DNA letters at once, predicting how tiny changes in noncoding regions trigger ...

The first full ancient Egyptian genome reveals ancestry from both North Africa and Mesopotamia. The individual likely worked ...

Various types of sled dogs have been used by humans across the Arctic for almost 10,000 years, but new research reveals one ...

An international research team has deciphered a mechanism of the evolutionary arms race in human cells. The findings provide ...

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and ...

Throughout their long history, Qimmit have remained working dogs–still almost exclusively bred by mushers to pull sleds for ...

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

When genetic sequencing of the human genome began in earnest in the 1990s, autism researchers hoped to identify the genetic cause—or more likely, causes—of the condition. “Twenty years ago the ...

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