New Genome Map Shows We're More Diverse Than Scientists Thought
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J. Craig Venter, genome scientist extraordinaire, takes his genome analysis to a new level of detail, showing humans are not 99.9 percent similar to each other as previously thought.
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People are less alike than scientists had thought when it comes to the billions of building blocks that make up each individual's DNA, according to a new analysis.
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A new and perhaps final report from the international consortium of laboratories that decoded the human genome has revised the estimated number of human genes sharply downward.
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Scientists have used computer analysis to read evolution backward and reconstruct a large part of the genome of an 80-million-year-old mammal.
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CHEVY CHASE, Md., Nov. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- A group of researchers has re-created with remarkable accuracy part of the genome of the common ancestor of all placental mammals, a small shrew-like creature
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When it comes to DNA, a human is closer to a chimpanzee than a mouse is to a rat. Yet tiny differences sprinkled throughout the genome have made all the difference, giving humans agriculture, language, art, music, technology and philosophy -- all the achievements that make us profoundly different. Until recently, there was no way to unravel these crucial differences, but that's rapidly changing.
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Evolution has gotten faster, and scientists think they know why: Microbes are swapping DNA from one species to another, giving the Darwinian process an added boost.
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Comment is free: Madeleine Bunting: An important US study shows us that the effects of ethnic diversity can be read as a challenge, rather than a threat.
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Scientists comparing the DNA sequence of brain genes in several species of primate have found that the genes that specify the architecture of the human brain seem to have started evolving faster some 20 million years ago.
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The first individual genome ever sequenced -- a complete DNA blueprint of celebrity scientist Craig Venter -- has revealed genetic variation among humans far richer than previously imagined.
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In a blow to human vanity, researchers now say that people have about the same number of genes as a small flowering plant or a tiny worm. The new estimate is down sharply from just three years ago.
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Genes that control the size and complexity of the brain have undergone much more rapid evolution in humans than in non-human primates or other mammals, according to a new study by Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers.
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New research reveals that humans have only about 25,000 genes instead of the 100,000 originally guessed. Researchers scratch their heads. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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America's growing diversity has reached nearly every state.
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A difference of opinion about the genetic basis of race has emerged between scientists at the National Human Genome Center at Howard University and some other geneticists.
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The number of mutated genes that drive development of cancer is greater than previously thought, research shows.
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Researchers in Iceland have discovered a region in the human genome that, among Europeans, appears to promote fertility, and maybe longevity as well.