When is a rare disease not a rare disease? The answer: when big data gets involved. An ambitious new research project aims to show patients that they...
An international research project to sequence whole genomes from mountain gorillas has given scientists and conservationists new insight into the...
Whole genome sequencing of MRSA from a hospital in Asia has demonstrated patterns of transmission in a resource-limited setting, where formal...
Researchers from the African Genome Variation Project (AGVP) have published the first attempt to comprehensively characterise genetic diversity...
What it lacks in genes, it certainly makes up for in legs: the genome of the humble centipede has been found to have around 15,000 genes – around 7...
A genome taken from a 36,000 year old skeleton reveals an early divergence of Eurasians once they had left Africa, and allows scientists to better...
A new study at the University of Cambridge has allowed researchers to peer into unexplored regions of the genome and understand for the first time...
Analysis of a supposed outbreak of MRSA in a Cambridge hospital raises questions about whether the superbug can be completely eradicated, despite a...
The genome of a child who died some 12,600 years ago in Montana – the oldest known human remains from North America – has been sequenced for the...
Scientists have sequenced the genome of the world’s oldest continuously surviving cancer, a transmissible genital cancer that affects dogs.
Dr Frederick Sanger, recognised by many as the “father of genomics”, died yesterday at the age of 95. The founding member of the MRC Laboratory of...
An international collaborative study to map the genome of a South American butterfly has identified the secret behind its mimetic nature.
