Look into the mirror — yes, you know your name, your age, your favourite foods, your allergies, and so on. But do you truly ...

Sometimes, the most significant scientific discoveries happen by accident. Scientists have long known that whole-genome ...

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics have discovered ...

A study from Cornell researchers could enable a quantum leap forward in identifying and deciphering cancer-driving genetic ...

A new partnership between the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will help advance open science and global capacity to deliver the ...

An additional four genes associated with canine obesity, but which exert a smaller effect than DENND1B, were also mapped directly onto human genes. "These genes are not immediately obvious targets ...

ABSTRACT: In North Carolina, candida infections are on the rise and pose a significant threat to human health in clinical settings ... only strain present in the clinical isolate. The whole genome ...

Since 1998, the group has meticulously reviewed over 175,000 scientific publications on gene function, searching for data on gene functions in well studied organisms and every gene in the human genome ...

A new study has uncovered how the brain’s “place cells”—neurons responsible for navigation—use randomness, rather than precise organization, to create internal maps of our surroundings.

Genome-wide linkage studies in the 1990s culminated in ... The completion of the Human Genome Project; The HapMap project that described the 'blocks' (haplotypes) of genetic material that were ...

The manuscript by Hall et al reports a genome-wide map of supercoiling in yeast using psoralen as a probe that intercalates more effectively into underwound DNA and can then be fixed in place by ...