We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...
A sweeping new genetic study has uncovered a long-overlooked thread in the fabric of South American history: a deeply rooted ...
The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...
On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They ...
A new gene-editing technique enables the correction of multiple genetic mutations simultaneously, transforming the prospects ...
A superbug that does not respond to the very last ditch antibiotics and that has been circulating in Asia and Europe arrives ...
Betrayal, ambition and the double helix: turning Rosalind Franklin’s story and the discovery of the structure of DNA into an ...
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Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human genome—comprising about 17% of the genome. It is commonly called a "jumping gene" or ...
While workers are hand-wringing at the prospect of an algorithm taking their job, bosses are reassuring workers that AI is just like any other technological revolution. And Goldman Sachs CEO David ...