Study Showcases Certain Neanderthal Gene Variants Make an Individual More Susceptible to Autism Neanderthals may have vanished a long time ago, but they continue to startle scientists with discoveries ...

Scientists have uncovered DNA from 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric humans, including the oldest known evidence of plague ...

Our cells' identity is shaped by DNA tags called methylation. New tech, scDEEP-mC, maps these tags in single cells with ...

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

A genomic analysis of Greenland’s Qimmeq dogs suggest they and their human partners arrived on the island centuries earlier than previously thought.

DNA makes RNA, RNA makes protein, protein makes phenotype—was the guiding framework for understanding inheritance and disease ...

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

Molecules from the 20-million-year-old teeth of a rhino relative are among the oldest ever sequenced, opening tantalizing ...

A test developed by a Madison company to better track cancer DNA in the blood stream will now be covered by Medicare.  Exact Sciences, which is headquartered in the UW Research Park and has labs along ...

In the interview, Lloyd M. Smith discusses proteoforms, an area of research worthy of the next Human Genome Project.

Genomic data shed light on how populations of sled dogs — and their human handlers — have shifted over past 800 years.

Study shows how photolithography techniques can be used to not just make a micron-scale shape, but control it, too.