In 1920, a botanist named Hans Winkler merged the Greek words "genesis" and "soma" to describe a body of genes. On this episode of Science Diction, historian Howard Markel discusses the word ...

I’m always learning something from the readers of the Loom. Yesterday, I wrote about how scientists had inserted their names into a synthetic genome, and how such signatures would erode away ...

An international team of almost one hundred scientists has uncovered the complete, gap-free human genome by deciphering the remaining and hitherto unknown sequences – opening the door for novel ...

Culturomics: Mining 'Genome' of Words for Cultural Trends Harvard and Google discover cultural trends with database of digitized books.

The vegetable provide the world's fourth-largest crop. Words in the News: Potato gene 'map' could boost crops: 15 July 2011 ...

After completing full genome sequencing, researchers isolated 28 different types of immune-related cells from volunteers' blood samples and measured gene expression in those cells.

In other words, they have described and developed 3D models that recreate how FoxH1 binds to specific points in the genome to perform its function.

I'm always learning something from the readers of the Loom. Yesterday, I wrote about how scientists had inserted their names into a synthetic genome, and how such signatures would erode away like ...