Lurking within the genomes of nearly all species--including plants, fungi, and even humans--are genes that are passed from generation to generation with no clear benefit to the organism. Called ...

It's time for researchers to reconsider the current paradigm of cancer as a genetic disease, argued Sui Huang from the Institute for Systems Biology, USA, and colleagues in a new essay published March ...

It's time for researchers to reconsider the current paradigm of cancer as a genetic disease, argues Sui Huang from the ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

PacBio (NASDAQ: PACB), a leading provider of high-quality, highly accurate sequencing platforms, today announced a newly published study in Nature Communications unveiling a powerful new method for ...

New genomic techniques can increase food security and mitigate climate change effects. EU rules aim to regulate these plant ...

In a story of collaboration and community, researchers identified intergenerational epigenetic changes caused by war and ...

Mammalian genomes are organized by multi-level folding, yet how this organization contributes to cell type-specific transcription remain unclear. We uncovered that the nuclear protein SATB1 ...

The second act of a popular reprogramming factor could maximize the potential of iPSCs in research and regenerative medicine.

Even cells experience peer pressure. Scientists have long studied the ins and outs of cancer cells to learn more about the ...

The Colossal Woolly Mouse expresses multiple mammoth-identified traits relevant to cold adaptation and provides a platform for validation of genome engineering ... with both a non-functional ...

Participants were from multiple public databases and nearly half were of non-European ... sets of whole genome sequencing data, with a double increase of the sample size, including a gene-based ...