The longtime director of the National Human Genome Research Institute is stepping down, as the larger NIH braces for more ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

In a story of collaboration and community, researchers identified intergenerational epigenetic changes caused by war and ...

The New Science of Nature and Nurture.” Since Francis Galton coined the phrase “nature versus nurture” 150 years ago, the ...

Marco Marra spent five years earning his PhD by studying DNA fragments of roundworms, fascinated by the notion that ...

Thomas, Ph.D., a principal investigator of the Gene Ontology Consortium and director of the division of bioinformatics and a professor of population and public health sciences at the ... and every ...

The Federated European Genome-phenome Archive (FEGA) is transforming how sensitive human genomic data is shared and accessed.

Researchers at Duke University and North Carolina State University have discovered a handful of new CRISPR-Cas systems that ...

The first resource containing high-resolution DNA sequencing data for over 37,000 children and parents collected over ...

Creation of a comprehensive genetic representation for more than 2.5 billion people across the Middle East and South Asia could make a major contribution towards advancing precision medicine.

Each cell of the human body contains two meters of DNA ... the Institute of Gene Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and other scientific organizations have also made efforts in this ...