The often-mentioned fact that humans and chimpanzees are 99.9 percent identical in their DNA is hard to accept for some people, who can't comprehend how we could share so much of our basic genetic ...

University of Chicago Medical Center. "Genetic changes to basic developmental processes evolve more frequently than thought." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 7 May 2015. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / ...

Scientists sought to work out genetic errors by creating their own artificial genome, which replaced E. coli’s original genome and used less genetic material.

Although pathogenic microorganisms constitute a small proportion of the microbial species, these are characterized by high genetic diversity. In the past decade or so, there has been considerable ...

Welcome to the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences at Case Western Reserve University! Our department encompasses a diverse spectrum of fields, including human genetics, genomics, epigenetics, ...

Diagnosis of CF can be made independent of the identification of mutations in the CFTR gene. Justification of mutation diagnosis is based on the fact that it enables rapid, early, definitive diagnosis ...

For those couples who know they have a one in four risk of having a child with CF, whether because of the birth of a previous CF-affected child, family history or community screening, combining in ...