Stanford scientists have identified 380 key genetic variants that significantly influence cancer development, filtering ...

MaizeCODE is a genomic project analyzing the genetic basis of maize domestication. Researchers identified key regulatory ...

Scientists at UC Santa Cruz have completed the first end-to-end genome of the iconic Pacific banana slug, a species ...

Curled up inside every single one of the trillions of cells in the human body is six feet of DNA, spooled tightly and carrying the genetic instructions that govern so much of who a person becomes.

Regeneron, San Diego-based biotech company Illumina and 17 health systems invested in the $320 million round. Regeneron ...

Every second, Human Genome Project computers decode 12,000 letters ... so neither donors nor scientists know whose DNA is being sequenced. The human genome sequence generated by the private ...

Stanford Medicine researchers sifted through thousands of single nucleotide mutations in DNA to identify fewer than 400 that are functionally associated with inherited cancer risk.

Funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the project aims to accurately reflect the full range of human diversity worldwide ...

Research from Umeå University paves the way for a quantitative data analysis method to study the cell division process in ...

Once extracted, the DNA was sequenced and assembled into a complete genome, a process carried out by UCSC Assistant Project Scientist Merly Escalona ... 2.3 gigabases — relatively close to the human ...