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4,500-year-old skeleton solves Egypt–Mesopotamia genetic puzzle

Buried for 4,500 years in Egypt's scorching sands, a ceramic pot preserved a laborer's skeleton that now upends long-held ...

Mapping proteins in African genomes reveals new paths to fight type 2 diabetes

Researchers have conducted the most comprehensive analysis to date linking plasma proteins to genetic variation in ...

PacBio and UC Davis Researchers Introduce CiFi, a New Long-Read 3C Method That Enables Chromosome-Scale Assemblies from a Single SMRT Cell

PacBio (NASDAQ: PACB), developer of the world's most advanced sequencing technologies, today announced CiFi, a new community-developed method that enables chromosome-scale, haplotype-resolved genome ...

CRISPR screen uncovers hundreds of genes required for brain development

Which genes are required for turning embryonic stem cells into brain cells, and what happens when this process goes wrong? In ...