The reference-quality genome assembly of an experimentally relevant human cell line, retinal pigment epithelial line RPE-1, is completed.

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the development of CRISPR/Cas9, a method also known as "gene scissors," ...

Genetics may no longer be the driving force of human evolution, a study by researchers from the University of Maine suggests.

The T7+ integrates MGI's proprietary DNBSEQ™ technology with next-generation fluidics, optics, and bioinformatics, creating a platform that is faster, smarter, and more versatile than ever before. The ...

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...

Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...

This ‘NOVA’ presentation traverses 300,000 years to explore the history of Homo sapiens.

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make ...

Government-funded academic research (GoFAR), lately the subject of across-the-board cuts in the U.S., is one of the engines ...