The 1000 Genomes Project reveals the most comprehensive catalog to date of variation in the human genome.
The 1000 Genomes Project reveals the most comprehensive catalog to date of variation in the human genome.
Genes from fungi, bacteria, and viruses may have helped mosses and other plants to colonize the land.
J. Craig Venter plans to develop a machine to find and sequence DNA on Mars, but another genomics mogul, Jonathan Rothberg, may beat him to it.
Students at Mount Sinai School of Medicine can now take a class in which they can sequence and interpret their own genomes.
A unique organism sighted only once, more than a century ago, could shed light on the evolution of multicellularity—if it ever actually existed.
Laboratory-raised populations of dung beetles reveal a mother's extragenetic influence on the physiques of her sons.
Epigenetic changes accrued over an organism’s lifetime may leave a permanent heritable mark on the genome, through the help of long noncoding RNAs.
Scientists unravel the confusing molecular biology behind a fruit fly’s reliance on a single type of cactus.