Fossils of ancient chromosomes discovered
On Jul. 11, 2024, a team led by scientists from Baylor College of Medicine, University of Copenhagen, and…
Scientists generated the first complete chromosome sequences from non-human primates
On May 29, 2024, a team of researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health announced they had…
Scientists released the first complete sequence of a human Y chromosome
On Aug. 23. 2023, researchers co-led by University of California, Santa Cruz Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Karen…
Scientists released a new human ‘pangenome’ reference
On May 10, 2023, researchers released a new high-quality collection of reference human genome sequences that captures substantially…
3D map revealed DNA organization within human retina cells
On Oct. 7, 2022, the National Eye Institute researchers announced they had mapped the organization of human retinal…
Y chromosomes of Neandertals and Denisovans was sequenced
On Sept. 24, 2020, an international research team led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in…
NIH leadership detailed unprecedented initiative to ramp up testing technologies for COVID-19
On Jul. 22, 2020, a scientific analysis of more than 2,000 brain scans found evidence for highly reproducible…
NIH study showed highly reproducible sex differences in aspects of human brain anatomy
On Jul. 20, 2020, a scientific analysis of more than 2,000 brain scans found evidence for highly reproducible…
UMN Institute scientist links ancient virus to cancer risk
On Mar. 16, 2020, the Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota announced published research concerning remnants of ancient viruses…
The genome of the Glanville Fritillary butterfly was sequenced
On Sept. 5, 2014, researchers led by Professor Ilkka Hanski at the University of Helsinki announced they had…
Elizabeth Blackburn won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering how chromosomes are protected by telomeres
On Oct. 5, 2009, Elizabeth H. Blackburn won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…
Carol W. Greider won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 for discovering how chromosomes are protected by telomeres
On Oct. 5, 2009, Carol W. Greider won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…
Researchers announced they had decoded human chromosomes 5, 16, and 19
In 2000, researchers from Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore, and Los Alamos national laboratories at the Joint Genome Institute…
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The Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University – St Louis completed sequencing of one third of the human genome
On Dec. 2, 1999, an international team of researchers at the Sanger Centre near Cambridge, England; University of…
70 scientists from 20 countries met in Lexington, Kentucky to make a plan for mapping the horse genome
In Oct. 1995, 70 scientists from 20 countries met in Lexington, Kentucky to make a plan for mapping…
Stanford Medicine researchers discovered ‘off-switch’ for genetic reproduction in bacteria
On Oct. 22, 1990, scientists from Stanford University led by Arthur Kornberg announced they had discovered a chemical…
Lawrence Livermore researchers published solution to chromosome painting
In 1984, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers published their solution to chromosome painting that has been widely adopted….
The University of California Radiation Laboratory (Livermore) was the first to use flow cytometry to sort chromosomes
In 1972, Livermore was the first to use flow cytometry to sort chromosomes. By the end of the…
The University of California Radiation Laboratory (Livermore) applied computers to chromosome analysis
In 1960, University of California Radiation Laboratory (Livermore) researchers, in a groundbreaking application of computers to study biology,…
Thomas Hunt Morgan awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his chromosome theory of heredity
In 1933, Thomas Hunt Morgan was was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his chromosome…
German biologist Walter Fleming discovered chromatin, later called chromosomes
In 1882, german biologist Walter Fleming discovered chromatin, the rodlike structures inside the cell Fleming discovers chromatin, the…
German biologist Walter Fleming stained chromosomes to observe them clearly and describes the process of mitosis
In 1879, German biologist Walter Fleming stains chromosomes to observe them clearly and describes the process of mitosis.