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Today's biomedical researchers are relentlessly searching for genes that drive disease, with the goal of creating therapies ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Metagenomic sequencing of stool samples from 225 hospital patients and healthy volunteers reveals the impact of different antimicrobial exposures on the gut microbiome.

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In recent years, there has been a dramatic rise of innovation in human genomic technology. This has been most notably seen in new and effective genomic ...

It seems that southern Africa provided an ecological refuge where people adapted successfully for more than 200,000 years – ...