A groundbreaking data storage technology could preserve an entire human genome in a tiny 5D memory crystal. Developed by ...

A decades-long NIH-backed effort to map the human genome has advanced our understanding of genetic risk factors and human ...

With the flurry of media attention surrounding the race to sequence the genome, it often seems as if the myriad genome facts and news items floating around could fill up a couple of telephone books.

Although it is currently not possible to synthetically recreate humans, plants, or animals from genetic data, there has been ...

New work from UC Davis and the University of Utah shows how the 3D structure of DNA inside a germ cell commits it to develop ...

A comprehensive encyclopedia of the known functions of all protein-coding human genes has just been completed and released. Researchers used large-scale evolutionary modeling to integrate data on ...

Scientists across India sequenced genomes from dozens of communities as part of the Genome India Project, revealing insights ...

Researchers led by electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a better way to perform the comparative analysis of entire genomes ... of evolutionary histories across ...

Bits of viral genes incorporated into human DNA have been linked to cancer, ALS and schizophrenia. But many of these genes may not be harmful, and could even protect against infectious disease.

Saccharina japonica, one of the most widely cultivated seaweeds globally, is particularly prominent along China's coastline, ...