Every living organism has its own genetic "blueprint": the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. This ...

As Japan faces the challenges of a rapidly ageing population, homegrown biotech pioneers are redefining the boundaries of ...

Extracting and analyzing relevant medical information from large-scale databases such as biobanks poses considerable challenges. To exploit such "big data," attempts have focused on large sampling ...

Key points Genomics delves into the genetic make-up of organisms, which helps us understand how they work.With new ...

A new study suggests that inherited traits explain a small but measurable share of why some people relocate far from where they were born.

But they disagree on whether studying social genomics—elucidating any potential genetic contributions to behaviors ranging from mental illnesses to educational attainment to political affiliation—can ...

In one of the largest genetic studies of its kind, they have traced the origins of the potato blight to the Andes. The ...

Researchers from New England Biolabs and Yale University have created a system for engineering the first fully synthetic ...

The University of Barcelona hosted a celebration of 25 years of publication of the human genome sequence. The breakthrough ...

Scientists: AI Could Misuse Bio Data, Design Harmful Viruses ...

Genes may play a bigger role in living a longer life, while lifestyle and luck still shape the outcome, according to a new ...

The human genome is made up of 3 billion letters of DNA (A, T, C and G). Whole genome sequencing is a technique that is used ...