An ambitious plan to sequence genomes for 1.85 million eukaryotic species on our planet is underway. It's a massive ...

A tiny freshwater snail from New Zealand is giving scientists a glimpse into evolution in motion. University of Iowa ...

New whole-genome sequencing data reveals how strongly DNA shapes everyday traits, closing the long-standing gap in ...

The real revolution came in 2012, when researchers Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier harnessed CRISPR, a natural bacterial defense system. In bacteria, CRISPR cuts out invading viruses’ DNA ...

At a time when large-scale human genome analysis was not yet common, the Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo) ...

Whole genome sequencing in nearly 500,000 UK Biobank participants shows that observed rare and common variants now explain ...

Genome size exhibits extensive variation across the life of a tree. Previous studies have predominantly focused on ...

Using full genome sequencing data from more than 347,000 individuals, researchers quantified how much genetic differences explain human traits such as height, body mass index, fertility, and disease ...

A large genetic study reveals depression beginning in young adulthood has a stronger hereditary component and a much greater ...

Pregnancy loss may occur in as many as 25% of all pregnancies. Most of these losses occur in the first trimester, and about ...