Peru’s fight against tuberculosis demonstrates how global neglect endangers public health. COVID-19 setbacks, poverty, and ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

Leading synthetic biologists have shared hard-won lessons from their decade-long quest to build the world's first synthetic ...

By setting up both reactions side by side in a test tube, the team revealed a literal tug-of-war between two DNA-repair pathways acting on the same HTT repeat. Which side wins likely determines ...

With a rate of mutation 35 percent higher than random chance, this previously unknown weakness could be a major vector for ...

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

Researchers at Duke University used CRISPR technologies to discover previously unannotated stretches of DNA in the 'dark genome' that are responsible ...

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

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

Kyushu University researchers have created a novel “ACTG” naming system for human gene types, and launched the Joint Open ...

This study provides useful insights into addressing the question of whether the prevalence of autoimmune disease could be driven by sex differences in the T cell receptor (TCR) repertoire, correlating ...

KAT is a suite of tools that analyse jellyfish hashes or sequence files (fasta or fastq) using kmer counts. The following tools are currently available in KAT: kmer: Produces a k-mer hash containing ...