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Scientists Sequence First Genome From Ancient Egypt, Revealing 4,800-Year-Old Secrets
The first full ancient Egyptian genome reveals ancestry from both North Africa and Mesopotamia. The individual likely worked ...
Cutting to the core of how 3D structure shapes gene activity
In biology textbooks and beyond, the human genome and DNA therein typically are taught in only one dimension. While it can be ...
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DNA Tags in Single Cells Reveal Cell History, Gene Activity, and Growth
Our cells' identity is shaped by DNA tags called methylation. New tech, scDEEP-mC, maps these tags in single cells with ...
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Twenty-five years after the human genome project, a new era is dawning
Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and ...
Genetic 'barcode' discovery cracks the code of centromeres, the genome's most mysterious regions
When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...
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Ancient Egyptian DNA Fully Sequenced for the First Time
Researchers in the UK have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from an individual who lived more than ...
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COPCNVBD: An Integrated Approach for Somatic Copy Number Variation and ...
Read depth (RD) signals anomaly-based copy number variation (CNV) detection methods using whole genome sequencing data are affected by the measurement scale and parameters, and the breakpoint of CNVs ...