Mysteries surround the elusive Greenland shark, the longest-living vertebrate in the world. Researchers have new insight into the unique fish’s genetic makeup.

The Neanderthal genes that persist in our genome are tied to metabolism and immunity ... in order to analyze the frequencies ...

The Homo sapiens genome today contains ... So we can look for bits of Neanderthal DNA sequence in the genomes of modern humans. The genomes of all human lineages originating in Europe contain ...

There’s nothing like a challenge. In 2016 ... The HCA would not have been possible without earlier projects, notably the Human Genome Project and, more recently, the NIH BRAIN Initiative ...

A shingles rash looks like a cluster of tiny, fast-growing blisters on a red base of skin. The blisters quickly merge, rupture, and crust over. A shingles outbreak almost always develops on one side ...

Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the ...

As we increasingly embrace and idealize convenience, ease, and precision, will our humanity become our liability rather than ...

A NGS analysis framework for WGS data, which automates the entire process of spinning up AWS EC2 spot instances and processing FASTQ to snvVCF in <60m, for dollars a sample and achieving Fscores of ...

This study provides a valuable look at genome-wide RNaseA-resistant RNA-DNA interactions in human embryonic stem cells. The research indicated that RNase treatment maintained long-range RNA-chromatin ...

Down here on Earth, if we’re lucky, we can spot the Milky Way glimmering in the night sky like a sparkling stretch of fog across space. It can be a rare sight, especially for city dwellers who ...