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The initial measurement of the difference between the human and chimp genomes was based on aligning 2.4 billion base pairs in the two ...

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicne went to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and huma...

There's an old saying that birds of a feather flock together. It means that people with the same interests tend to associate with each o...

Several people have commented on Facebook about an interview with Matthew Cobb [ Reflections on the Double Helix's Platinum Anniversary ...

C. David Allis died on January 8, 2023. You can read about his history of awards and accomplishments in the Nature obituary with the provo...

Wikipedia is a not-for-profit crowdsourced encyclopedia that's open to anybody who wants to contribute. This is both a strength and a we...

Charles Darwin , the greatest scientist who ever lived, was born on this day in 1809 [ Darwin still spurs tributes, debates ] [ Happy Darwin...

The last few weeks have been hectic. I got the first page proofs about a month ago and my job was to proof read those pages and prepare the ...

My 9th great grandfather is John Banks (1619-1685) who was born in Essex (England) and moved to the colony of Connecticut in 1634. He marrri...

There are several different ways to describe the human genome but the most common one focuses on the DNA content of the nucleus in eukaryote...

Here are a few questions for ChatGPT and its answers. The AI program takes the most common information on the web and spews it back at you. ...

Check out this website, What's in Your Genome if you want to see a preview of my book (Preface, Prologue, part of Chapter 1). The ...

New names for very large and very small weights and sizes have been adopted. Last November's meeting of the General Conference on ...

In order to have a productive discussion about junk DNA we needed to agree on how to define "function" and "junk." Disag...

Scientists have recently developed an mRNA-lipid nanoparticle flu vaccine that protects against all known flu variants. There are four typ...