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Many commercial biological age tests collect genetic information through saliva samples or oral swabs. For accurate measurements, however, blood samples are typically necessary according to a new ...

Researchers uncover key mechanisms in gene regulation that may lead to better design of RNA-based medicines.

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By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...

At the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing, held in March 2023 at the Francis Crick Institute in London, ...

Most animals, including humans, have bilateral symmetry, which means our bodies are pretty symmetrical. At least on the ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and ...

A significant advancement in knowledge of the link between cognition and genetics has been made thanks to a study led by ...

Structural variants in the human genome include cytogenetically detectable and submicroscopic deletions, duplications, large-scale copy-number variants, inversions and translocations. The ability ...

The great Indian bustard is critically endangered, but the Indian government has found a clever way of breeding the species ...