Scientists have uncovered thousands of bacterial DNA fragments hidden inside cockroaches for millions of years. The ...

For more than three decades, researchers studying genomes have relied on foundational resources such as Repbase and, more ...

A red dot on a cave wall in Portugal does not look like much. It’s a small mark, crusted over by minerals, easy to miss ...

Amid the peatlands of northern Sweden, billions of microbes are quietly rewriting their genetic playbooks—and doing so far more often than scientists realized.

DNA science is finally putting names to the lost crew of the 1845 Franklin expedition. A recent study identified four more ...

Latin American people are represented in fewer than 4% of genetic epidemiological studies around the world. When they are included, they're often lumped together as one group, despite the rich ...

Base editing, the process used to make the changes, only nicks one strand of DNA, avoiding the major DNA errors that made ...

ELSI Working Group. 1994. Statement on The Bell Curve. https://www.genome.gov/sites/default/files/archiespace2024-03/ELSI%20WG%20Bell%20Curve.pdf Genetic Science ...

The William H. Foege Genome Sciences Building at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle contains laboratories, sequencers, computational facilities, and other resources for ...