A research team led by scientists from the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) has introduced a new ...

Recent groundbreaking research into ape genomes has uncovered mysterious non-human DNA structures that challenge our ...

The Human Genome Project changed everything. A map of the entire human sequence of DNA was the starting point for an enormous number of discoveries, from disease genes to how humans evolved. But DNA ...

Tiny tweaks in DNA folding can have big effects. A study from Umeå University shows that even the most subtle changes in ...

The Earth BioGenome Project is racing to sequence the DNA of life, building a global genome library to protect biodiversity.

Dyslexia is a neurodevelopmental condition estimated to affect between 5–10% of people living in most countries, irrespective ...

Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps share 98.8% of their DNA. But is this actually true? And what does "similar ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

With the first medical therapy approved and systems like CRISPR-Cas showing up in complex cells, there’s a lot happening in the genome editing field. By Amber Dance/Knowable Magazine Published Jan 26, ...

Genome sequencing is the process of reading an ... The most exciting result was uncovering this man's genetic ancestry. By comparing his DNA to ancient genomes from Africa, western Asia and Europe, we ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...