The global sales of DNA diagnostics are estimated to be worth USD 27,094.2 million in 2024 and are anticipated to reach a ...

Big World Cinema and Bertha Foundation are launching the African Producers Accelerator, a 12-week program tackling regional ...

South African scientists have identified two new breast cancer genes -- RAB27A and USP22 -- in Black women, marking the first GWAS of its kind on the continent. This breakthrough highlights the need ...

These genes have not been associated with the disease before, which is an important advance in understanding breast cancer risk and biology in women of African ancestry." Dr. Mahtaab Hayat ...

Now this convulsive demographic history can be "read" in their genomes. The investigation found more African ancestry in the north of Brazil, and more European in the south. Most of the study ...

Pharma and biotech companies are increasingly using saliva for clinical trials and drug response studies, thanks to its non-invasive nature and ease of repeated sampling. Dentistry, too, is leveraging ...

The event will also include free genealogy kits and two public education sessions: "Identity Unknown: How Genealogy Databases Can Solve Cases" with genetic genealogist Jeremy Lipford at 11 a.m ...

Here the authors present a local ancestry inference algorithm with superior accuracy, and use it to shed light on the demographic histories of Latin Americans and the Askenazi Jewish, and to map a ...

RNA splicing is a modification of the nascent pre-messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) transcript in which introns are removed and exons are joined prior to translation. For many eukaryotic introns, splicing ...