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DNA sequencing can assess your risk of developing certain diseases. It could even help provide medicines personalized to your genes one day. Governments want you to get involved.
The previous record for oldest genome was an 80,000-year-old ancient cousin of humans whose genome was sequenced from a single finger bone found in Siberia.
The promise of genome editing to help understand human diseases and create new therapies is vast, but technological limitations have limited advancement of the field. While existing editing ...
Scientists have pieced together a new draft of the human genome that better captures humanity’s genetic diversity.
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The fish with the genome 30 times larger than ours gets sequenced Every 10 million years, lungfish have added a human genome's worth of junk DNA.
Genome of near-extinct northern white rhino offers hope for reviving the species Date: May 14, 2025 Source: Scripps Research Institute Summary: The northern white rhinoceros is one of the rarest ...
On the basis of the whole-genome sequences of cultivated and wild hops, this study describes the evolution of sex chromosomes, including degeneration and dosage compensation, and identifies a ...
This Tiny Fern Has the World’s Largest Known Genome The plant’s genome has about 50 times as many base pairs as a human’s, and its DNA from a single cell would stretch longer than a football ...
Our findings present the first-ever evidence that violence can leave epigenetic marks on the genome, which has important implications for understanding evolution and how traumatic experiences can ...