Collaborative research led by investigators at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center defines a ...

Washington state will soon have another tool to support long-term management for one of the highest priority invasive species ...

African scientists say the world is missing vital medical insights by ignoring the continent's vast genetic diversity. Less than 2 percent of human genome sequencing worldwide comes from African ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have found a pattern of so-called epigenetic "marks" in a transition state between ...

The flowerpot snake, recognized as one of the smallest snakes globally, possesses some remarkable characteristics.

A new multi-generational study suggests that the effects of violence can remain in your genes—and be passed down to future ...

Hyderabad: Recent global genomic study have provided fresh insights into how primates, including monkeys, apes, lemurs, and ...

Under the right conditions, duckweed essentially farms itself. Wastewater, ponds, puddles, swamps—you name it. If there's ...

Vence Bonham Jr., the highest ranking official at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), has been put on ...

As warehouses go, nuclei are more like libraries than bank vaults. Too many cellular components need access to the genome to lock it down like Fort Knox. Instead, large groupings of more than 1,000 ...

R75W mutation in the gap junction β2 (GJB2) gene causes severe fragmentation of gap junction plaques, connecting adjacent ...

Vence Bonham, acting deputy director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, has been “unexpectedly” placed on administrative leave, he announced in an email to staff Monday evening.