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Sequencing diverse populations revealed over 41,000 transcripts missing in Eurocentric references, exposing ancestry bias ...

Tiny repeated stretches of DNA in your genome may quietly shape how your body works, how your brain develops and how you ...

A study scanned genomes from over 450,000 people to find individuals who carry rare archaic versions of DNA changes once ...

Deep beneath the ocean’s surface, where sunlight never reaches, a creature older than dinosaurs has quietly preserved secrets ...

Using lung cancer biospecimens from the Sherlock-Lung study, an international team led by National Institutes of Health (NIH) ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers have now discovered that HAR123, a regulatory gene sequence, is an important factor in human brain development. Even though humans are ...

It seems that southern Africa provided an ecological refuge where people adapted successfully for more than 200,000 years – ...

Using lung cancer biospecimens from the Sherlock-Lung study, an international team led by National Institutes of Health (NIH) ...