African scientists say the world is missing vital medical insights by ignoring the continent's vast genetic diversity. Less than 2 percent of human genome sequencing worldwide comes from African ...

Hyderabad: Recent global genomic study have provided fresh insights into how primates, including monkeys, apes, lemurs, and ...

Washington state will soon have another tool to support long-term management for one of the highest priority invasive species ...

A new multi-generational study suggests that the effects of violence can remain in your genes—and be passed down to future ...

Under the right conditions, duckweed essentially farms itself. Wastewater, ponds, puddles, swamps—you name it. If there's ...

Vence Bonham Jr., the highest ranking official at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), has been put on ...

As warehouses go, nuclei are more like libraries than bank vaults. Too many cellular components need access to the genome to lock it down like Fort Knox. Instead, large groupings of more than 1,000 ...

Those whose CRP levels became high had an increased risk of any stroke (HR 1.45), while those with persistently high CRP ...

R75W mutation in the gap junction β2 (GJB2) gene causes severe fragmentation of gap junction plaques, connecting adjacent ...

Evolution is nature's engine, driving and shaping genetic change and the diversity around us. Charles Darwin famously ...

Scientists have released new and more accurate genome sequences for five species of duckweed. Their research reveals the specific genes responsible for some of the plant's most useful traits, allowing ...