Researchers say they may have finally discovered the key genetic change that enabled all of modern human speech.

Dana-Farber investigators found that normally defunct viral genes that lie dormant in the human genome can be activated in the most common form of kidney cancer (clear cell renal cell carcinoma) and ...

Even though he teaches biostatistics at the University of Michigan, Michael Boehnke never originally intended to work in ...

Genomics technologies, while powerful, are not sufficient to bring precision medicine into routine clinical practice.

4) in the journal Nature, also provides a new method for identifying the causes of diseases that involve genes with multiple ...

For more basic information about genes, visit the Glossary. A rough draft of the human genome was completed in June 2000. Efforts are underway to complete a final draft of the human genome ...

In a mouse or human embryo, the cells that will one day produce sperm ... technique called "Hi-C" to identify the proximity ...

President Clinton said Tuesday that the sequence of the human genome should be made freely available to all researchers, ...

Protein-coding versus noncoding genes When deciding the number of genes in the human genome, Human Genome Project researchers initially counted protein-coding genes—regions of chromosomal DNA that are ...

"A more complete view of variation within our genomes is foundational to advancing research on cancer, aging, and infertility, as well as countless other aspects of human health." Our genome sequences ...

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About 75% of the world's food comes from 12 plants. Scientists estimate up to 30,000 species are edible. Not only does this ...