Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and ...

Since the mapping of the human genome in 2003, synthetic biology has reached a new milestone. British researchers are now ...

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

A Ph.D. student in biomolecular engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has built a software program ...

Dating back more than 4,500 years, the skeleton belonged to a middle-aged man who may have worked as a potter and likely ...

The study of genome evolution involves multiple fields including structural analysis of the genome, genomic parasites, gene and ancient genome duplications, polyploidy, and comparative genomics.

For example, when the first draft of the human genome was published in 2003, scientists were surprised to find that sequence analysis revealed only around 25,000 genes, instead of the 50,000 to ...

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