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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan today announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind initiative combining frontier artificial intelligence and frontier biology to dramatically accelerate scientific ...

The two main approaches for discovering disease genes reveal distinct aspects of biology, a new study shows. While both methods are widely used, the research found that they identify different genes, ...

While metabolomics is the large-scale comprehensive profiling of metabolites and other small molecules in the context of ...

DNA repair is essential for the maintenance of genomic stability and its failure can lead to human disease. Various DNA repair systems exist, such as base excision repair, nucleotide excision repair, ...

Mice have remained the focal point for life sciences research for the past several decades. Their universality in biomedicine ...

The prestigious annual Canada Gairdner Awards recognize the world’s most accomplished researchers whose work is improving our understanding of human health and disease. Since 1957, 426 awards have ...

Claire Huntington, a biotechnology major and class assistant, demonstrates how to apply a sample into gel in the Design to Data program within the Genome Center's Siegel Lab taught by Ashley Vater.

Dealing with the sorting and shuttling of biologic cargo inside our cells is key to maintaining their health, so further research examining how the disruption of hemifusomes affects these processes ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, pathogen DNA has uncovered a pivotal disease "turning point" that happened 6,500 ...

A small but growing movement of scientists wants to classify aging as a disease. They face an uphill battle. An improving scientific understanding of the biology of aging is leading some scientists, ...