Animals are disappearing from the planet at an alarming rate. Each day, an estimated 200 species go extinct. Some of the ...

For 50 years, scientists at the San Diego Zoo have been collecting and storing cells from rare and endangered species in its Frozen Zoo with an eye to the future. The future is here. The San Diego Zoo ...

Although there are striking differences between the cells that make up your eyes, kidneys, brain and toes, the DNA blueprint ...

NIH funding has allowed scientists to see the DNA blueprints of human life—completely. In 2022, the Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium, a group of NIH-funded scientists from research institutions around ...

Integration of HiFi Long-Read Whole-Genome Sequencing Expands the Collective Capabilities of iHope’s Global Rare Disease ...

In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in 1980, genomics pioneer Fred Sanger described science as “a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge.” It’s ...

After losing his son Drew to Tay-Sachs Disease in 2019, Adam Anderson’s life took on a new path. He ran for local office in Florida and became a leader in rare disease policy, creating a new genetic ...

Despite decades of chasing leads, investigators had been unable to identify the victim of a 1992 homicide on the North Side.

Illumina, which specializes in DNA sequencing, will work on samples representing 1,300 species in the San Diego Zoo Wildlife ...

DNA methylation is a highly studied epigenetic modification that is involved in regulating genome function and plays fundamental roles in development and disease. 1 It is linked to a broad range of ...