This week, the Pacific Biosciences SMRT Grant announced the lucky winner of the World’s Most Interesting Genome…
Remember those slightly horrifying sites that mash up two faces to tell you what your hypothetical babies might look…
Scientists have finished unraveling the largest genome ever sequenced. The genome of the loblolly pine encompasses just…
Somewhere 11,000 years ago, something weird happened to a dog. It got cancer—and the really damn freaky part is that…
If—like most of us—your entire understanding of DNA and genetics can be traced back to CSI reruns, you’re probably…
At some point, you probably learned about the idea of dominant and recessive genetic characteristics. A common example…
Scientists have managed to sequence the genome of a 700,000-year-old horse—in the process generating the oldest…
In the human genome, only about 2% of our DNA are genes involved in coding the proteins essential to our existence. The…
Everyone knows that a drop of blood or strand of hair is all the police need to identify suspect's DNA. But now…
Mapping out your genome is the 21st Century equivalent of staring deep inside your soul; it's tempting to look, but…
For the past decade, scientists have been working on the assumption that 20,000 genes, less than 2 percent of the total…
Nature or nurture? It's an age-old debate that sees conversations go round in circles and actually, if truth be told,…
Our closest evolutionary relatives are chimpanzees, and both of our species are much more related to each other than to…
The human genome carries an average of 1% to 4% Neanderthal DNA, which means our ancient human ancestors must have…
This month marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the discovery of Mitochondrial Eve, the common ancestor of every human…
Don Wright was diagnosed with myeloma—cancer in his blood cells and bone marrow—two weeks after running his first…
Despite representing different stages of human evolution, it looks like European Homo Sapiens might have had a penchant…
Humans and chimpanzees share up to 99% of the same DNA, which is particularly remarkable considering we don't look…
Reproductive arrangements don't get much stranger than those of the Batura toad of Pakistan. The entire species is the…
The plague that wiped out over a third of Europe's population in the 14th century came from a bacteria known as Yersinia…
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