A new international research consortium that aims to sequence the genomes of at least 1,000 people has just been set up. The project is expected to cost between $30 million and $50 million ...

A collaborative study by researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Illumina has showcased the exceptional capabilities of the DRAGEN (Dynamic Read Analysis for GENomics) platform in ...

Li and his colleagues conducted their study using a database known as 1000 Genomes, an international database of modern human ...

"The original aim of the ancient human genomes project was to reconstruct 1,000 ancient human genomes from Eurasia as a novel ...

"That compares to more than 1,000 genomes from Europe right now, which is an important but small corner of the world." He adds: "There's so much to do." Follow Paul on Twitter. Who We Are and How ...

New evidence shows how we evolved to crave and digest carbohydrates and how this helped spur today’s carbohydrate consumption ...

The scientists isolated and sequenced the genomes of 36 neurons from healthy brains donated ... What they found was that every neuron’s genome was unique. Each had more than 1,000 point mutations ...

Two famous victims of the volcanic eruption that devastated Pompeii 2,000 years ago, long thought to be women and dubbed the ...

By comparing 1,000 Irish genomes with over 6,000 genomes from Britain and mainland Europe, genetic clusters within the west of Ireland, in particular, were discovered for the first time ...

A 30-year-long study of a small population of marine snail shows how evolution can adapt to environmental changes quite rapidly. This study revealed how a specific ecotype of the snail changed its ...

The "RNA world" hypothesis proposes that the earliest life on Earth may have been based on RNA -; a single-stranded molecule similar in many ways to DNA -; like some modern viruses. This is because, ...