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New Technique Maps Damage to DNA Caused by Smoking

Jun 14, 2017 10:51 PM EDT

Maps like these will help scientists better understand how smoking-induced cancers originate; why some people are more vulnerable or resistant to cancers and how these cancers might be prevented.

Genome Explains Woolly Mammoth Mechanism In Enduring Arctic Conditions

Cecille Marie Gumban |

Jul 05, 2015 03:29 PM EDT

Mammuthus primegenius, more popularly known as the woolly mammoth, has spent its entire life living in extreme Arctic conditions. And because of its capability to adapt to the arctic environment, scientists have been studying this mammal in an effort to better understand what genetic changes differentiate it from the living elephants today.

New Genome Study Can Help Solving Gene-Disease Links

Marco Foronda |

Mar 26, 2015 11:49 AM EDT

Researchers embarked on a massive gene-sequencing program involving 2,636 Icelanders, and because of something known as the founder effect.

23andMe to Sell Data in Bid to Cure Parkinson's

Marco Foronda |

Jan 09, 2015 09:31 AM EST

23andMe will make its databases available for scientific research.

UK's 100,000 Genome Project May Find Cure for Cancer and Rare Diseases

Nyrene Grace Patricia Paranga |

Dec 22, 2014 06:25 AM EST

Scientists looked for 100,000 volunteers who will allow their DNA to be sequenced and used as a public resource.

Scientists Discover the Oldest Human Genome

Marco Foronda |

Oct 23, 2014 12:35 AM EDT

The oldest genome is closely related to ancient Europeans and had a small amount of Neanderthal gene.

An Evolutionary "Arms Race" Shaped the Human Genome

Marc Maligalig |

Sep 29, 2014 02:29 AM EDT

Jumping events are able to distort normal genes and cause disease depending on where a cop of the retrotransposons are inserted into the genome.

Genomics Reveals Bee Evolution

Marc Maligalig |

Aug 25, 2014 05:14 PM EDT

Scientists from the Uppsala University in Sweden published the very first paper on the global analysis of honeybee genomes and found that there are high levels of genetic diversity in the colonial insects and signifies Asia as the species' origin, and not from Africa as initially thought.