When couples have trouble conceiving a baby or lose a pregnancy, they often undergo routine tests, which can turn up a shock: ...

Eukaryotes are organisms whose cells contain a nucleus. From protozoa to human beings, all have the same basic biological ...

UC Santa Cruz has a long history of pioneering advances in genomics research. The first working draft of a human genome sequence was assembled on our campus in 2000, which has led to enormous leaps in ...

At WIRED Health 2025, Orchid CEO Noor Siddiqui and genomics pioneer George Church laid out their view of the future of ...

Innovative obesity drugs. Quantum computing bits. A cystic fibrosis treatment. The scientists behind these discoveries could be among the 2025 Nobel Prize winners.

The consortium that has taken the lead for the synthesis needs to be expanded and needs to include researchers from ...

Scientists announced the Biodiversity Cell Atlas project to map every cell type across all eukaryotic life on Earth.

As precision medicine takes hold in the healthcare industry, hospitals, health systems and healthcare organizations are establishing biobanks — databases storing people’s individual genetic ...

April 14, 2025 – Genome Research (https://genome.org) publishes a second special issue highlighting advances in long-read sequencing applications in biology and medicine. In this second Special Issue, ...

Editor’s note: On June 13, 2013, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that isolated human genes may not be patented. Researchers at UC Santa Cruz assembled the first working draft of the human genome ...