Israel is one of the top-ranked countries in the world in genomic research, he declares. “These are people who lead genomic ...

Whether you turn red when drinking alcohol, dislike certain smells, or metabolize drugs differently from others, the ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

We Can, a new comic‑book and animation series, asks bluntly: if we can achieve miracles, why are we still promoting destruction?

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Boston Children's Hospital, along with Broad Clinical Labs and Roche Sequencing Solutions, has demonstrated that rapid genomic sequencing and interpretation are achievable in a matter of hours. This ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Around 45 percent of human DNA is made up of transposable elements, or TEs—genetic leftovers from now-extinct viruses that scientists once believed to be “junk DNA.” But that view is changing, and a ...