A new, comprehensive map of all the genes essential for blood infections in Plasmodium knowlesi (P. knowlesi), a parasite ...

Complete recombination map of the human genome, a major step in geneticsScientists at deCODE genetics/Amgen have constructed a complete map of how ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

Scientists reveal new insights into the hidden processes driving human genetic variation with the first complete human DNA ...

Although human height is easy to measure, geneticists have struggled for decades to define the number of genes that contribute to height. Recently, scientists have employed high-throughput ...

Bjarni V. Halldorsson and Kari Stefansson, scientists at deCODE genetics, discuss the paper: Complete recombination map of ...

Protein-coding versus noncoding genes When deciding the number of genes in the human genome, Human Genome Project researchers initially counted protein-coding genes—regions of chromosomal DNA that are ...

The sequencing of the human genome represents a major milestone that will have profound consequences for the practice of medicine. Many new disease genes will be identified, and this information ...

aureus isolates cultured from the human nose and on the skin to investigate which genes are important for the bacteria to adapt and persist. Published today (13 January) in Nature Communications ...

"The laboratory rat has been a critical model for studying human health and ... updates to the genome maps includes the addition of more than 1,100 new protein-coding genes that were previously ...