Craig Venter, the hard-charging San Diego biologist who co-led the sequencing of the human genome, leading to better ways to ...

J. Craig Venter, a scientist and entrepreneur who raced to decode the human genome, died on Wednesday in San Diego. He was 79 ...

Genomic data provides evidence for a previously unknown wave of migration, with Indigenous groups living in central and ...

A research team led by Zhen-Xing Endowed Professor Jian Yang at the School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, has developed a pangenome-informed genome assembly (PIGA) method. By combining a ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) — The U.S. Department of Energy has completed the demolition of a former Manhattan Project-era uranium enrichment building, Alpha-2, to clean up and create space for ...

Renaissance BioScience Corp., a global leader in bioengineered yeast that provides solutions for environmental and industrial challenges in the agriculture, food, animal and human health, and energy ...

Most modern humans with non-African ancestry carry small amounts of Neanderthal DNA across much of their genome but have little-to-none on their X chromosomes. New research from Penn challenges an old ...

IF TIMING IS everything, then Thomas Hartung picked a bad moment to make his move. Dr Hartung is an environmental toxicologist at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, who has spent his career ...

Scientists are launching an ambitious global effort to map the “human exposome” — the lifelong mix of environmental and chemical exposures that drive most diseases. Backed by new partnerships with ...

Although there are striking differences between the cells that make up your eyes, kidneys, brain and toes, the DNA blueprint for these cells is essentially the same. Where do those differences come ...

Genome Canada has launched the genCARE project, which aims to improve health outcomes for Black Canadians by uncovering genetic variants unique to that population. The Black-led project will undertake ...