Database Will Integrate Data from Clinical Testing Labs & Literature
This week, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched a new database known as ClinVar, which will make physicians’ jobs much easier. The NIH…
This week, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched a new database known as ClinVar, which will make physicians’ jobs much easier. The NIH…
An international team of more than 1,000 scientists participated in a new study showing an integrated map of genetic variation from 1,092 human genomes. A…
Twelve years after the first draft of the human genome was published, back in 2000, geneticists have discovered that very few diseases are linked to…
J.B.S. Haldane proposed in the 1930s that children might inherit more mutations from their fathers than their mothers. This year, thanks to whole-genome sequencing of…
Using exome sequencing, a team of scientists have discovered the human gene that causes a relatively rare but devastating type of early-onset blindness, providing an…
A new genome-scale analysis to characterize somatic alterations in colorectal carcinoma is the largest analysis of its kind, involving more than 150 researchers at dozens…
To better understand the human genome and its variability from person to person, scientists at Harvard Medical School developed a set of molecular and statistical…
By developing a way to mathematically represent the genomes of different species, or of different individuals within a species, such that the overlapping data is…
Biologists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have completed the sequencing and analysis of the genome of the bonobo, finding that the bonobo…
With microbes outnumbering human cells by 10 to 1, the Human Microbiome Project (HMP) Consortium looks at how these microorganisms coexist with their human hosts…
The Tomato Genomics Consortium fully sequenced the genome of the tomato, Solanum lycopersicu. They report in the Journal Nature that tomatoes possess some 35,000 genes…
While studying base pairs of human genomes from over 14,000 people, researchers discovered a dramatically higher rate than they expected of rare genetic variants, finding…
Newly published research from biochemists at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine describes how a protein that is required for DNA replication, Cdt1,…
New research pinpoints to certain mutations that may have helped the stickleback, a tiny armored fish, to evolve quickly between saltwater and freshwater forms. Since…
A new genomics technique developed at Cornell University is roughly 50 times cheaper than comparable methods. The cost effectiveness of this new method, called Genotyping-by-sequencing…
A new imaging technique is giving scientists their first three-dimensional view of the human genome and how DNA is packed inside cells. Research has shown…
Neuroscientists are studying the connections between the billions of neurons in the brain and believe they hold the key to our memories, personality and even…
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have completed the genome sequence of a Denisovan human finger bone that was discovered in Denisova…