Analysis of individual human genomes has revealed an unexpected amount of variability in human populations. Copy number variation (CNV) has recently been identified as a major cause of structural ...

Technologies for selecting segments of large genomes for resequencing will reveal biologically important sequence variation. The four reports in Nature Methods and Nature Genetics describe novel ...

More than 20 years after the conclusion of the Human Genome Project, Macias and other researchers at Wang Lab in the ...

Scientists have accomplished the most advanced engineering of human cell lines to date, demonstrating that genomes are more robust against significant structural changes than previously understood.

Ashley started at The Scientist in 2018. Before joining the staff, she worked as a freelance editor and writer, a writer at the Simons Foundation, and a web producer at Science News, among other ...

Thirty years out from the start of the Human Genome Project, researchers have finally finished sequencing the full 3 billion bases of a person’s genetic code. But even a complete reference genome has ...

Whether you have lobed or lobeless ears is due to genetic causes. Biological sex is also an inherited variation - whether you are male or female is a result of genes you inherited from your parents.

Paraphrase in combination with HiFi long-read sequencing provides a single framework for resolving highly similar paralogous ...