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…
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…
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…
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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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…
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…
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…
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…
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 from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) announced they…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
BRCA2 gene mapped to chromosome 13q12-13
In 1995, the BRCA2 gene was mapped to chromosomal 13q. Just fifteen months later, Wooster et al. reported…
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 biomedical researchers began studying human chromosome 19
In 1987, Livermore biomedical researchers began studying human chromosome 19. At the same time, Los Alamos began efforts…
Genetic markers were found for kidney disease and cystic fibrosis
On Oct. 11, 1985, scientists in Canada and Massachusetts reported discovering the first genetic marker for the widespread…