Blended genome–exome sequencing reads key regions deeply and the rest of the genome shallowly, cutting costs and ancestry ...

Every living cell, from the simplest bacterium to a human neuron, relies on the same basic machinery to read, interpret, and use its DNA. This molecular machinery is so fundamental that life as we ...

Elizabeth Campbell studies the molecular machinery that all living cells use to read and transcribe their genetic instructions. Her lab is finding new ...

New research reveals non-Mendelian epigenetic inheritance in mice, challenging genetic assumptions and suggesting new avenues ...

A centromere is a specific region on a chromosome that ensures that, when a cell divides, the chromosome separates accurately so each new cell receives the correct amount of genetic material. Despite ...

Every cell in the human body carries the same 3 billion letters of DNA, yet a neuron, a heart muscle cell and a pancreatic beta cell each use that shared code to do entirely different jobs. How cells ...

There are people around us who can maintain their weight despite what they eat. This has led scientists to believe that a person's metabolism and tendency toward obesity may have genetic factors ...

It’s no secret that modern humans and Neanderthals interbred: most of the world’s population today has around 1 or 2 percent of Neanderthal DNA. Now a new study suggests that, for some of us, our ...

DNA (cfDNA)-optimized multiomic sequencing workflows for liquid biopsy and translational research. duet +modC mosaic and duet 6-base mosaic enable academic researchers, translational scientists, and ...

Two years ago, at my father’s funeral, I gave a eulogy highlighting a genetic trait that runs through our family: we are ...

Genetic screening that identifies cancer-linked mutations in newborns could give doctors a head start on treatment, but it ...