Biology | Diagnostics | Disease | Oncology | Therapeutics
New research uncovers critical DNA repair mechanism during cell division
On Jan. 8, 2026, a major advance in cell biology has revealed how our cells safeguard their genetic…
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Detailed cell map unlocks secrets of how reproductive organs form
On Dec. 17, 2025, new research has mapped the cell types that specialise to form reproductive organs in…
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The tale of the creature with the most chromosomes
On Sept. 19, 2025, researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Barcelona reported…
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Will China’s new chromosome editing tool unlock new wave of genetic advances?
On Aug. 10, 2025, a group of Chinese scientists has overcome a challenge that stumped biologists for decades…
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Scientists Achieve Megabase-Scale Precision Genome Editing in Eukaryotic Cells
On Aug. 5, 2025, a team of Chinese researchers led by Prof. GAO Caixia from the Institute of…
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Bacterial ‘jumping genes’ can target and control chromosome ends
On Mar. 6, 2025, Cornell researchers announced they have discovered a new mechanism that genes use to survive…
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Biology of Valentines
The Biology of Valentines illustrates the many hormones driving this special day for two of our favorites: Estrogen…
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Researchers discovered unique genome folding in turtles
On Nov. 11, 2024, a team of researchers led by Iowa State University (ISU) have shown that as…
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Biology | Biotechnology | Diagnostics | Genomics | Oncology
How ecDNA Fuels Cancer by Breaking the Laws of Biology
On Nov. 6, 2024, a trio of new studies with funding from Cancer Grand Challenges revealed the unfair advantage…
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Researchers have developed Turbo rice and super tomatoes
On Oct. 8, 2024, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding announced they have developed a…
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Researchers bend DNA strands with light, revealing a new way to study the genome
On Sep. 9, 2024, a Princeton University team announced they had developed a way to probe chromosomes and…
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Study Analyzed Potato-Pathogen ‘Arms Race’ After Irish Famine
On Aug. 5, 2024, North Carolina State University researchers revealed that an examination of the genetic material found…
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Fossils of ancient chromosomes discovered
On Jul. 11, 2024, a team led by scientists from Baylor College of Medicine, University of Copenhagen, and…
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Scientists generated the first complete chromosome sequences from non-human primates
On May 29, 2024, a team of researchers from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) announced they…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Evolution of DNA
The Evolution of DNA is an Illustration with the very small, requiring magnification, to the very large. Cast…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The genome of bread wheat was published
On Jul. 17, 2014, the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC) a draft sequence of the bread wheat…
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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…
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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…
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Stanford researchers developed a test that reduced the risks in testing for chromosomal disorders such as Down syndrome
On Oct. 6, 2008, Stanford researchers developed a test that reduced the risks in testing for chromosomal disorders…
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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…
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A gene associated with Parkinson’s disease was discovered
On Nov. 15, 1996, for the first time, scientists pinpointed the location of a gene they believe is…
