India has finally mapped its own DNA and what it found could change medicine for a billion people.

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There is still a great deal unknown about RNA and its modifications. Christoph Burgstedt/Science Photo Library via Getty Images ...

Artificial intelligence has gotten a bad reputation lately, and often for good reason. But a team of scientists at Google’s DeepMind now claims to have found a revolutionary use case for AI: helping ...

Research shows Black Canadians are more likely to be diagnosed with certain conditions like Type 2 diabetes, but the demographic has been left out of crucial research. A new genome project is ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - A local high school students is sparking conversation among her peers by turning a class project into advocacy against human trafficking. Millard West High School senior Brooklyn ...